Chaim Azriel Weizmann Quotes

Miracles do happen, but you have to work hard at them. ~ Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton. ~ Chaim Weizmann

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. ~ Chaim Weizmann

Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews ~ Chaim Weizmann

I head a nation of a million presidents. ~ Chaim Weizmann

On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped. ~ Chaim Weizmann

Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends. ~ Chaim Weizmann

Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia ... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home. ~ Chaim Weizmann

We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not ... You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world. ~ Chaim Weizmann

The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy ... The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told. ~ Chaim Weizmann

We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power. ~ Chaim Weizmann

The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No' ... From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people ... The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world ... Only the branch of the young shall survive ... They have to accept it. ~ Chaim Weizmann

There must not be one law for the Jew and another for the Arabs ... In saying this, I do not assume that there are tendencies toward inequalirty or discrimination. It is merely a timely warning which is particularly necessary because we shall have a very large Arab minority. I am certain that the world will judge the Jewish State by what it will do with the Arabs, just as the Jewish people at large will be judged by what we do or fail to do in this state where we have been given such a wonderful opportunity after thousands of years of wandering and suffering. ~ Chaim Weizmann

Mor patted Azriel on the shoulder as she dodged his outstretched wing. "Relax, Az - no fighting tonight. We promised Rhys."
The lurking shadows vanished entirely as Azriel's head dipped a bit - his night-dark hair sliding over his handsome face as if to shield him from that mercilessly beautiful grin. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Azriel would likely love Mor until he was a whisper of darkness between the stars. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Auschwitz?! That is a name I had heard before. There is not much time for thinking. It had been raining here not so long ago. The asphalt of the wet, wide platform reflects the light of the high lighting-poles. The row of armed SS men competes in howling with their dogs they hold on leashes ~ Azriel Feuerstein

God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget. ~ Chaim Potok

An artist is a person first. ~ Chaim Potok

One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee, I said. ~ Chaim Potok

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been. ~ Chaim Potok

Take care of your father," he said. "There aren't many people like him around anymore. ~ Chaim Potok

It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly. ~ Chaim Potok

Great artists make the entire world their home. ~ Chaim Potok

It's my world, best friend. And I haven't seen anything outside that's better. ~ Chaim Potok

We need to listen to one another. ~ Chaim Potok

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven? ~ Chaim Potok

Something that is yours forever is never precious ~ Chaim Potok

We cannot build our lives around sickness, Asher. We must have faith in the Master of the Universe. ~ Chaim Potok

They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds? ~ Chaim Potok

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don't know the past, you can't understand the present and plan properly for the future. ~ Chaim Potok

When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble. ~ Chaim Potok

Can you understand what it means for something to be incomplete?" my mother had once asked me. I understood, I understood. ~ Chaim Potok

I grew up encrusted with lead and spectrumed with crayons. My dearest companions were Eberhard and Crayola. Washing for meals was a cosmic enterprise. ~ Chaim Potok

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. ~ Chaim Potok

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. ~ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev. ~ Chaim Potok

Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat. ~ Chaim Potok

I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book. ~ Chaim Potok

You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul. ~ Chaim Potok

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. ~ Chaim Potok

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk. ~ Chaim Potok

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. ~ Chaim Potok

A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is. ~ Chaim Potok

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different. ~ Chaim Potok

Only one who has mastered a tradition has a right to attempt to add to it or rebel against it. ~ Chaim Potok

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul ~ Chaim Potok

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. ~ Chaim Potok

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. ~ Chaim Potok

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. ~ Chaim Potok

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. ~ Chaim Potok

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. ~ Chaim Potok

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. ~ Chaim Potok

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way. ~ Chaim Potok

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. ~ Chaim Potok

I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city. ~ Chaim Potok

Those of us directed towards the right were lined up in threes with much shooting and beating. I was in the first row, at the platform's edge. Suddenly, we see a group of older women and women with children nearing the road, under the platform. In the first row I see my mother supported on both sides by two friends. She too becomes aware of me. And out of the throat of this reticent, soft-spoken woman who I don't remember ever raising her voice, breaks out a terrible, desperate, piercingly loud, howling shout: 'GYURIKA!!! ~ Azriel Feuerstein

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown ~ Chaim Potok

They become angry and ugly and they fight anything that's a threat to them. We have to learn how to fight back without hurting them too much. ~ Chaim Potok

Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you. ~ Chaim Potok

But I do not know how else the work can be done. To touch a person's heart, you must see a person's face. One cannot reach a soul through a telephone. ~ Chaim Potok

The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain. ~ Chaim Potok

Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering. ~ Chaim Potok

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. ~ Chaim Potok

It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice. ~ Chaim Potok

Was it a pretty drawing, Asher?'
'No Mama. But it was a good drawing ... I don't want to make pretty drawings, Mama. ~ Chaim Potok

Obstacles are given us in order to make our desire even stronger. The more a thing is hidden from man, the more he desires it, and the greater the chance he will one day discover it. ~ Chaim Potok

It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has fallen. ~ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon ... ~ Chaim Potok

A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you. ~ Chaim Potok

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity. ~ Chaim Potok

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. ~ Chaim Potok

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. ~ Chaim Potok

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste. ~ Chaim Potok

Art begins ... when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it. ~ Chaim Potok

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. ~ Chaim Potok

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. ~ Chaim Potok

... the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth. ~ Chaim Potok

Little Asher Lev was the juncture point of two significant family lines, the apex, as it were, of a triangle seminal with Jewish potentiality and freighted with Jewish responsibility. But he was also born with a gift. ~ Chaim Potok

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ~ Chaim Potok

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. ~ Chaim Potok

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. ~ Chaim Potok

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate. ~ Chaim Potok

Every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose. ~ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Did I know that the reason Hitler had been able to slaughter six million Jews without too much complaint from the world was that for two thousand years the world had been taught that Jews, not Romans, had killed that man? ~ Chaim Potok

My name is Asher Lev ... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years. ~ Chaim Potok

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature. ~ Chaim Potok

Someone was playing piano nearby and the music drifted slowly in and out of my mind like the ebb and flow of ocean surf. i almost recognized the melody, but i could not be sure, it slipped like a cool and silken wind from my grasp. ~ Chaim Potok

David was a man after God's heart because he was a man who understood God's heart and sought to protect the heart of God. You cannot protect God's heart until you intimately understand His heart. ~ Chaim Bentorah

He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed. ~ Chaim Potok

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ~ Chaim Potok

And then I was crying too, crying with Danny, silently, for his pain and for the years of his suffering, knowing that I loved him, and not knowing whether I hated or loved the long, anguished years of his life. ~ Chaim Potok

The prophetic vision of the Temple was revealed to Ezekiel on Yom Kippur in the year 3352 (408 B.C.E.), a Jubilee Year.6 On Yom Kippur in the Jubilee Year, Jewish slaves are freed and land in Israel that had been sold during the previous forty-nine years, is returned to its original tribal ownership. ~ Chaim Clorfene

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses. ~ Chaim Potok

I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it. ~ Chaim Potok

Those mornings, the beach was my synagogue and the waves and gulls were audience to my prayers. I stood on the beach and felt wind-blown sprays of ocean on my face, and I prayed. And sometimes the words seemed more appropriate to this beach than to the synagogue on my street. ~ Chaim Potok

Did you really believe I would ever allow a sick fuck like you to take what is mine?" the devil asked softly. And Azriel was the devil. Satan incarnate looked him in the eyes. "Did you think you could just walk into my house and take my woman from right under my nose?"

CRACK!
A mighty fist slammed into his right eye. He hadn't even seen Seth move. The eye closed, the pain throbbing hard, going all the way to his brain.

CRACK! ~ Shara Azod

He's not asking me to make a choice. He's telling me to take a stand. I'm either with him or against him. All or nothing. I'm disgusted with the whole business. I don't want smicha if the price I have to pay for it is to stop thinking. ~ Chaim Potok

The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. ~ Chaim Potok

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it. ~ Chaim Potok

Subjugate the Arab world. Dr. Weizmann and the Zionists felt ~ Leon Uris