Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: ukrainian
  • Birth: July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970

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Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

John P. Kotter

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This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

Jeff Greenfield

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

John Sculley

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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen King

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As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Stan Getz

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I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

Martin Parr

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My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Michelle Bachelet

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Not to be harsh, but why do we care so much about celebrity acceptance of Christian beliefs?

Monica Johnson

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When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

Chris Cornell

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There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-Files' and on network television, so it's more permissive. That's not to say that you want to abuse that. I think that a show like 'The X-Files' actually worked better as a network show with the restraints put on it, the censorship that was applied.

Chris Carter

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A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

Cliff Chiang

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It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

Antoine Lavoisier

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