"It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free."

-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Men Quotes #Israel Quotes #Land Quotes

“Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.”
“I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless”
“I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.”
“I am a woman above everything else.”
“And if you're lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, 'How all right can he be?'”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.12, Delacorte Press
“Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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