Yiddish Literature Quotes

#1. Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#3. The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.

Tom Ford

#4. Would he purge his soul from vileness
And attain to light and worth,
He must turn and cling for ever,
To his ancient Mother Earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?

John Irving

#6. In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.

Annie Jacobsen

#7. I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Ben Barnes

#8. The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.

Robert J. Allison

#9. It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#11. Vivi likes you so it's not like I had to beg her to help. She's got an angelic face and she melts hearts with her smile - which means that she's pretty much the most badass sidekick of all time.

Ella Fox

#12. But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

Karen White

#13. A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#14. His eyes reflected a softness I had already forgotten in America.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#15. If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

Peace Pilgrim

#16. Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.

James Lankford

#17. What concrete steps can I take now?" I asked the voice, and it replied: "Go to a house of prayer and pray."
"Without faith?" I countered, and the voice said: "You have more faith than you know.

Isaac Bashevis Singer