Smadar Grossman Quotes

#1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.

Mos Def

#3. The anger and shame of these women I hold in one hand, and the basin in the other. The distance between the two, the length I pace and try to measure, is the size of an abortion.

Sallie Tisdale

#4. She was trapped. Thorne was captured. But they had been heroic.

Marissa Meyer

#5. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Barack Obama

#6. Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.

Javier Marias

#7. I prefer not to elaborate on the various stages of our dealings over the next few days - disbelief, anger, recrimination, the raking up of old sores, bitter silence and so on - but I can say that they gave lasting strength to our relationship, like a thick scar is stronger than the skin around it.

John Mole

#8. There won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)

Lynne Ewing

#9. Are you going to let what someone might say prevent you from doing what you must do?

Eric Greitens

#10. Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.

Frederick Lenz

#11. You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

Eugene V. Debs

#12. Was good to see a dragon's teeth. A dragon with his mouth closed was far more likely to be working up a flame. That seemed completely obvious.

Rachel Hartman

#13. I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister ... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

Michael Howard