Abba Hillel Silver Quotes

The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.

Abba Hillel Silver

• Destiny
• Land
• Israel

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Night
  • Worry
  • Wind

• To be a Jew is a destiny.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Destiny
  • Jew

• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Long
  • Family
  • Single

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• Israel is not Vegas, and it will not be.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Will
  • Israel
  • Vegas

• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Destiny
  • Geography

• Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Place
  • Israel
  • Eat

• It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Very
  • Land

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Destroy
  • Aim
  • Israel

• If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Friend
  • Land
  • Come

• In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny.

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • People
  • Work
  • Words

• The laughter cameWhen the tears stopped falling.Now all I do is just call your name(When I say lover)You walked in and my heart discoveredThat my life would never be the same.Oh, you are my destiny.You are my one and only.You gave that joy to meWhen my whole life was lonely.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Joy

• This has been an extraordinary election. But in one of God's unforeseen paths, this belatedly broken impasse can point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve to remind us that we are one people with a shared history and a shared destiny.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • God
  • History

• The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

  

  James Woods
  • Control
  • Destiny

• I like Destiny's Child.

  

  Bonnie Wright
  • Destiny

• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Destiny

• A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Time
  • May
  • Said

• We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

  

  William Styron
  • Goal
  • Acceptance
  • Becoming

• I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Two
  • Privilege
  • Grandparent

• I'm a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I'd just get hysterical.

  

  Norm Crosby
  • Myself
  • Audience
  • Background

• What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

  

  Naomi Alderman
  • Trying
  • Ends
  • Cares

• My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Happy

• The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.

  

  Abba Hillel Silver
  • Destiny
  • Land
  • Israel