"In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other."

-- Ehud Barak

#Israel Quotes #Familiar Quotes

“Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.”
“Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.”
“The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.”

Source : Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill
“Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.”
“A nation will not be moved by timid methods.”
“Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.”

Source : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 151,
“We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.”
“Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.”

Source : "No pain, no gain". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2001.

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