Yehoshua Quotes

#1. I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#2. So, in the end, who you were doesn't seem to matter. It's who you are that does. And this change was for the best of us. - Author: Unknown

#3. We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#4. And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#5. Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#6. One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#7. Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#8. The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#9. Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. - Author: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#10. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is. - Author: L.M. Montgomery

#11. So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#12. God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.' - Author: Michael Chabon

#13. The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#14. We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#15. What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I. - Author: Christopher Shays

#16. The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#17. Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. - Author: A. B. Yehoshua

#18. Precision in matters of Christian doctrine is a hallmark of confessional Lutheranism, all for the sake of the Gospel. - Author: C.F.W. Walther