"The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!"

-- I. L. Peretz

#Pyramids Quotes #Blood Quotes #Together Quotes

“I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.”
“Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?”
“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.”
“The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.”
“Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.”
“Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.”
“Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.”
“And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1774). “The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An epistle to William Hogarth. The ghost. book 1-2”, p.57

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