"I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that it be a normal state. Just like everyone else."

-- Jonathan Freedland

#Israel Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Normal Quotes

“For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.86
“Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 21, 2013
“There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.”
“One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.”
“If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they'd be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn't like singing either.”
“Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.”
“I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.”
“Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.”

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