"My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar……" — Herman Wouk
"My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."
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36 Quotes by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk has 36 quotes on this site.
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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens,…
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This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
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Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young…
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War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad…
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find…
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Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you…
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we…
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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library.…
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I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar…
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was…
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which…
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one…
— Bono
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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a…
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The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are…
— William S. Burroughs
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