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“Peace is important for Israel.”
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“And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.”
Source : Thomas Reid (1827). “Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic”, p.597
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“Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.”
Source : James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214
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“I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.”
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“The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.”
Source : "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 9, 2013.
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“An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only creatures of Nature, perpetual creatures, as old and as permanent as it. In order to judge it better, we no longer consider the species as a collection or as a series of similar individuals, but as a whole independent of number, independent of time, a whole always living, always the same, a whole which has been counted as one in the works of creation, and which, as a consequence, makes only a unity in Nature.”
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“I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.”