Edmond Jabes Quotes

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

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• For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Hand
  • Need
  • Fortune

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Information

• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Feeling
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Real
  • Free

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Myself
  • Distance
  • Insecurity

• Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Word
  • Anything
  • Mouth

• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Distance

• I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Day

• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

  

  Barry White
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Me

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Distance

• Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
  • God
  • Country
  • Fear

• Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • People
  • Business
  • Game

• When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Art
  • Remember

• There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• We got in a situation where we were waiting for Kobe is hand to get hot. We started trying to force it in to him and that hurt us. Kobe had a hard time chasing Dixon around screens.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Hand

• My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

  

  Dennis Eckersley
  • Important
  • Career

• I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Elephant

• The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Hand
  • Distance
  • Word