"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel."

-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Fear Quotes #Book Quotes #Israel Quotes

“I have a God-given right to pursue happiness, and happiness to me is killing things, skinning them, plucking them, and then having a good meal. What makes me happy is going out and blowing a duck's head off.”
“You can always control the results. You can always control your attitude and effort every day.”
“Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.”
“I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.”
“Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.”
“I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.”
“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.”
“There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.”

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