Edmond Jabes Quotes

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

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• I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Wrong
  • Policy
  • Hillary Clinton

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Soul
  • Security
  • Losing

• I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• 'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.

  

  Ram Charan
  • High
  • Career
  • Song

• It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Work
  • Together
  • Group

• Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Eyes

• At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Cold

• People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • King

• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time

• The centre of gravity of any hemisphere is on the straight line which is its axis, and divides the said straight line in such a way that the portion of it adjacent to the surface of the hemisphere has to the remaining portion the ratio which 5 has to 3.

  

  Archimedes

• When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Thanks

• The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Success
  • Stock

• Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Health
  • Space
  • Simple

• The euro is under pressure already today and this is adding to its problems.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Problems
  • Pressure
  • Euro

• Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • People
  • Soul
  • Reading

• As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Coice