"And I said to myself: That's true, hope……" — Yehuda Amichai
"And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field."
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25 Quotes by Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai has 25 quotes on this site.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the…
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A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my…
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Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic…
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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God has pity on kindergarten children
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a…
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
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The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,
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From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
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Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
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More Barbed Quotes
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The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating…
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When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire,…
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula…
— David Berlinski
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Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm…
— William Kent Krueger
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I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a…
— Brendan Rodgers
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All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers,…
— Billy Connolly
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I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't…
— David Crowe
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton…
— Karina Longworth
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The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into…
— Clement Freud
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Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
— Edwina Currie
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