Elie Wiesel Quotes

The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...

Elie Wiesel

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Never
  • See
  • Talk

• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Book
  • True
  • Day

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Creativity

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Different
  • Why
  • Painting

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Love
  • Come
  • Excuse

• I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Life
  • Book
  • Friends

• Too many radio stations, all they do is syndicated programming, it's just piped in from some satellite someplace, and they don't have much of a connection to the community.

  

  David Shuster
  • Community
  • Connection

• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Calm

• Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Bad
  • Bird

• This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

  

  Charles Olson
  • Time
  • Small
  • Water

• The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Fear