Concept Quote by Simon Schama Download Open image “Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.” — Simon Schama ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Concept Jewish Judaism Really Silence Surprise Will You
Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism. — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand. — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation -… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and some legislators… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept… — Sara Davies Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
