Yosef Hayim Quotes

#1. From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.

Harold Holzer

#2. I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

Ursula Burns

#3. I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

David Cassidy

#4. She was beautiful. As always she looked like she'd meant to head for somewhere else but at the last minute she'd decided to stop by you, as a favor, you understand.

Jojo Moyes

#5. Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

Stephen LaBerge

#6. The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#7. As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.

Kristin Cast

#9. The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious ... Does it have feelings?

Ray Kurzweil

#10. Taste has no system and no proofs.

Susan Sontag

#11. The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

#12. If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.

Corbin Bleu

#13. Than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would

Oscar Wilde

#14. The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice.

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

#15. Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke

#16. Maybe all dimensions are right here and now. We just can't see them because we limit ourselves to three while incarnate.

C.R. Strahan