Etgar Keret Quotes
The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
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Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
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Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
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The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.
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I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much.
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The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.
