Udi's Quotes

#1. In Udi's vocabulary, Jewish was equated with the ills of exile: rootless parasitic, superstitious. Yet here, in the Western Wall's solitary dignity, was beauty. In this world of stone, he felt softness; in this quarry of memory, peace.

Yossi Klein Halevi

#2. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.

Mas'udi

#3. When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

Mike Tyson

#4. Pure religion is having the courage to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

Neal A. Maxwell

#5. January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little your life had changed, and man, people got angry in January.

Gillian Flynn

#6. Pandora, you promised to abide by the rules."
"I do," Pandora protested, looking chagrined. "I follow all the rules that I can remember.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?

Melanie Dickerson

#8. By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Honore De Balzac

#9. The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Bill Vaughan

#10. We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.

Jennifer Gardner Trulson

#11. Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.

Begona Aretxaga