S. Ansky quote: "When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews."

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY

A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY

When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S.

When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S.

If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM

But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR

Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S

Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S

வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER

So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA

Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI

If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR

Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S

If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR

Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S

If you want to be successful and productive, get rid of your illusions.
MICHAEL S.

உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN

Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY

Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S

...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO

As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO

People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S.

To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite...
PEARL S. BUCK

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conf...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then?...
DANIEL S. FLETCHER

Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne wa...
PETER S. BEAGLE

Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things."
"Who knows? Times change. ...
PETER S. BEAGLE

The Buck Stops Here.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft-- Such a bright l...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
JAMES S. MCDONNELL

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
THOMAS S. SZASZ

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and s...
ROBIN S. SHARMA

Oh! to be wafted away From this black Aceldama of sorrow, Where the dust of an earthy to-day ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
ORISON S. MARDEN

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in littl...
HARRY S TRUMAN

I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in med...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge f...
ROBIN S. SHARMA

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in...
C. S. LEWIS

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and be...
A. S. BYATT

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and...
C. S. FORESTER

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attack...
PEARL S. BUCK

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, ea...
THOMAS S. MONSON

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal ...
HARRY S TRUMAN

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afr...
HARRY S TRUMAN

The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Consti...
DIANE S. SYKES

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don'...
HARRY S TRUMAN

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored i...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for var...
C. S. LEWIS

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported enti...
ULYSSES S. GRANT

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close h...
HARRY S TRUMAN

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with u...
C. S. LEWIS

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right -...
S. T. JOSHI

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
C. S. LEWIS

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked fo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of m...
JED S. RAKOFF

I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
S. T. JOSHI

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make yo...
ROBIN S. SHARMA

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long e...
C. S. LEWIS

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken i...
S. E. HINTON

When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and endi...
S. E. HINTON

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way....
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
GEORGE S. PATTON

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we...
T. S. ELIOT

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form ...
T. S. ELIOT

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. ELIOT

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Never, never, never give in!
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.
GEORGE S. CLASON

Choose your love. Love your choice.
THOMAS S. MONSON

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as ...
PEARL S. BUCK

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.
ROBIN S. SHARMA

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

It's a lie to sell a diet plan that includes fast and processed foods, then implement a points syste...
NANCY S. MURE

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

If you are going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
HARRY S TRUMAN

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of ...
HARRY S TRUMAN

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one ...
HARRY S TRUMAN

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, a...
HARRY S TRUMAN

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. GILBERT

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. PERELMAN

Ten years before --- even five --- I had been the same way. I wanted it all and I wanted it fast and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live ...
S. MAXWELL CODER

One of the greatest gifts
That life can give to anyone
Is the very special love that families...
CRAIG S. TUNKS

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
IRVIN S. COBB

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.
HARRY S TRUMAN

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respecte...
HARRY S TRUMAN

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication i...
HARRY S TRUMAN

Choose your love, Love your choice.
THOMAS S. MONSON

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
HAROLD S. GENEEN

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, a...
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
IRVIN S. COBB

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas. . . a cosmonaut of inner spa...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. T...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.
HARRY S TRUMAN

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the wo...
JOHN S. BONNELL

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if...
HARRY S TRUMAN

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be don...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
HENRY S. HASKINS

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
IRVIN S. COBB

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY S TRUMAN

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
HARRY S TRUMAN

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact...
GEORGE S. PATTON JR.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
MALCOLM S. FORBES

When you feel bad about yourself you reverse your magnet and repel people.
S A GRAFIO

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ

It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the pressure ...
C. S. LEWIS

If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of...
C. S. LEWIS

Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity: There, right i...
C. S. LEWIS

Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestions of men? For i...
C. S. LEWIS

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good te...
C. S. LEWIS

Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Is not the popular...
C. S. LEWIS

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for...
V. S. NAIPAUL

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest qu...
EUGENE S WILSON

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. ...
MARVIN S. LEVIN

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY S. TRUMAN

Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. L...
CHARLES S. LAUER

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'...
C. S. LEWIS

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWIS

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the e...
T. S. ELIOT

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
T. S. ELIOT

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
GEORGE S. PATTON JR.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it...
THOMAS S. MONSON

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Presence is more than just being there.
MALCOLM S. FORBES

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brou...
T. S. ELIOT

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
HARRY S TRUMAN

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jac...
HARRY S TRUMAN

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
W. S. GILBERT

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
HAROLD S. GENEEN

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
HAROLD S. HULBERT

When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.
HARRY S TRUMAN

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
JULIAN S. HUXLEY

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
ROBERT S. MCNAMARA

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
ANDREW S. TANENBAUM

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a ma...
C. S. LEWIS

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our liv...
C. S. LEWIS

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE

Good people drink good beer.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.
JOSH S. WESTON

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
HARRY S TRUMAN

A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow.
GEORGE S. PATTON

God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.
W. S. GILBERT

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. ELIOT

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and ...
HAROLD S. GENEEN

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen sudd...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me...
PEARL S. BUCK

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LEWIS

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies a...
WILLIAM S. PALEY

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members...
HARRY S TRUMAN

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get eit...
C. S. LEWIS

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creati...
ROBIN S. SHARMA

The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. ...
THOMAS S. MONSON

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, bu...
C. S. LEWIS

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the...
ROBIN S. SHARMA

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
HARVEY S. FIRESTONE

The reward of suffering is experience.
HARRY S TRUMAN

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
HARRY S TRUMAN

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of ...
GEORGE S. PATTON

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laugh...
GEORGE S. PATTON

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
GEORGE S. PATTON

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. ...
ROBIN S. SHARMA

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

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