Wilensky Quotes

#1. Gabriel Wilensky's book is an excellent introduction into the history of antisemitism in Europe. His words will rightly unsettle those who have yet to come to grips with Christianity's role in shaping European attitudes and policies towards Jews into the 20th century.

Jonathan Friedman

#2. Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#3. We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Robert Wilensky

#4. I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely ... gone.

Meghan O'Rourke

#5. From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

William Butler Yeats

#6. A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

Kim Harrison

#7. Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.

Amy Wilensky

#8. It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

John Keble

#10. How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

Alexis De Tocqueville

#11. A split second. An eternity. Into the breach. Across the brink. A micron wide. Deep as forever. Of all our infinite possibilities, these are but two.

Jay Kristoff

#12. It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

#13. Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in a bad mood.

Marcel Proust

#14. You have to discard your own stereotypes. Remember, there's no such thing as normal.

Amy S. Wilensky