Edmond Jabes Quotes

One rose is enough for the dawn.

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• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Words

• I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Political
  • Feel
  • Tragedy

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Band
  • Name

• Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Nation

• The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Balance

• After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Issues
  • Pay
  • Decided

• I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Live
  • Know
  • Stand

• Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Truth

• Portam itineri dici longissimam esse.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro

• I am not a collector of deserts!

  

  Benito Mussolini

• It's just that it's been my experience in having sex with some straight men that the sex is over when he gets off. And I don't accept that. I want to have an orgasm. Not right now! This is the Isaac Stern Auditorium! No, I want to have one. I'll put a chalk board over the bed. One...one.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Sex

• Until the artist is dead, we are not able to determine his work in all its dimensions.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Work

• I am a great admirer of Professor Hayek. Some of his books are absolutely supreme-'The Constitution of Liberty' and the three volumes on 'Law, Legislation and Liberty'-and would be well read by almost every hon. Member.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Great
  • Law

• I'm so blessed with my baby.  And I want the most normal life possible for him.  And I'll manage, I will create that.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Life
  • Baby
  • Blessed

• 'I have now learnt to despise you,' he said. 'You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!'

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Rose
  • Prince

• It makes no difference abroad, The seasons fit the same, The mornings blossom into noons, And split their pods of flame.Wild-flowers kindle in the woods, The brooks brag all the day; No blackbird bates his jargoning For passing Calvary.Auto-da-fé and judgment Are nothing to the bee; His separation from his rose To him seems misery.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Rose
  • Bee
  • Auto

• Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Lost

• It didn't dislocate but it's not looking good.

  

  Ian Foster
  • Good
  • Looking
  • Dislocate

• One rose is enough for the dawn.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Rose
  • Dawn