Amos Elon Quotes
Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes it difficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.
Amos Elon
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
Kate Winslet
Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
Walter Annenberg
The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.
Yair Lapid
I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
Ursula K. Le Guin
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Camille Paglia
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
Alexander Pope
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
Ayn Rand
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
Aldo Leopold
A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
Anton Chekhov
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.
Claire Foy
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.
Diplo
