Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua - Page 1 | QuoteForever

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Israelis are the total Jews.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Israelis
Jews
Copy Quote
I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Slowly
Copy Quote
We have to rethink the two-state solution.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Rethink
Solution
Copy Quote
In my DNA, the Zionist gene is extremely strong.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Dna
Zionist
Extremely
Gene
Copy Quote
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Boundaries
Desire
Expression
Cross
Copy Quote
I admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Immoral
Admit
Jews
Copy Quote
In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Crisis
Rational
Writer
Tendency
Copy Quote
This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Hatred
Holocaust
Zionist
Leads
Copy Quote
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Complicated
Difficult
Process
Writing
Writing Process
Most
Beginning
Part
Copy Quote
The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Identity
Malady
Territory
Jews
Copy Quote
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Till
Published
Short Stories
Copy Quote
Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Contradiction
Permanent
Jews
Copy Quote
I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Community
African
Jews
North
Oriental
Parts
Copy Quote
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Compelling
Science Fiction
Literary
Trappings
Copy Quote
Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Gaza
Permanent
Let Us
Neighbors
Palestinians
Copy Quote
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
War
Diabolical
Metaphysical
World War Ii
World War
Copy Quote
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Gold
Intimate
Intimate Relationships
Literature
Describe
Explore
Mine
Relationships
Copy Quote
Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Jerusalem
Belong
Israelis
Jews
Muslims
Palestinians
Copy Quote
Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Ideology
Kingdoms
Personality
Copy Quote
We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Arabs
Copy Quote
It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Actions
Israelis
Copy Quote
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Capacity
Claims
Losing
Thinking
Began
Claim
Contribute
Copy Quote
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Boundaries
Crosses
Our Lives
Permission
Questions
Cross
Major
Copy Quote
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Expanding
Giving
Identity
Israeli
People
Territory
Speaking
Copy Quote
Our synagogues are spread all over the world, and we want people to respect them and look after them. And we have to respect the places of prayer of others.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Respect
Prayer
Spread
Places
Copy Quote
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Insight
Science Fiction
Suspense
Avoid
Deeply
Emotionally
Expect
Gain
Identify
Therefore
Copy Quote
I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family - with all the problems of a family. We have to live with them.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Conflict
Arabs
Enemies
Copy Quote
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Blood
Revenge
Suicide
Copy Quote
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Blood
Bombing
Desperate
Mixing
Possibility
Revenge
Suicide
Terrorist
Weapon
Punishing
Victims
Copy Quote
For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Authority
Israeli
Palestinian
Adult
Adult Life
Countless
Frustrations
Governments
Solution
Tirelessly
Copy Quote
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Dream
Bridges
Conflict
Contributing
Creating
Desire
East
Exclusion
Stupid
West
Bridge
Instead
Copy Quote
I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Proud
Understanding
Vocation
Arab
Fluently
Sent
Spoke
Task
Copy Quote
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Boundaries
Experts
Identity
People
Permit
Inside
Jewish
Cross
Major
Jewish People
Question
Copy Quote
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Truth
Judging
Past
Copy Quote
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Men
Bus
Fallen
Honor
Housewife
Mourn
Sake
Sitting
Soldier
Terrorist
Attack
Cafe
Mission
Random
Returned
Soldiers
Terrorist Attack
While
Copy Quote
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Deliberation
Historian
Judge
Dot
Copy Quote
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Britain
Connected
Free Man
Identity
Mythology
Attached
Based
Frontier
Influenced
Shakespeare
Shape
Copy Quote
At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don't need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Anti Semitism
Disaster
Identity
Mistake
Moses
Terrible
Territory
Thousand
Thousand Years
Jewish
Catastrophic
Error
Jews
Lies
Onto
Remain
Stems
Copy Quote
In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is this frustration that leads them to such destructive desperation. That's why we need to grant them status as a legitimate enemy - before we talk about an agreement or, alternatively, about a frontal war.
A. B. Yehoshua / Novelist
Agreement
Destructive
Enemy
Frustration
Hamas
War World View
Derives
Grant
Leads
Status
View
Copy Quote

Related Novelist Authors

Zoran Drvenkar
Novelist
Wednesday, Jul 19, 1967
Zia Haider Rahman
Novelist
Zelda Fitzgerald
Novelist
Tuesday, Jul 24, 1900
Wednesday, Mar 10, 1948
Zakes Mda
Novelist
Zadie Smith
Novelist
Saturday, Oct 25, 1975
Zachary Lazar
Novelist
Yxta Maya Murray
Novelist
Yury Olesha
Novelist
Friday, Mar 03, 1899
Tuesday, May 10, 1960
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Novelist
Monday, Sep 24, 1934
Yasmine Galenorn
Novelist
Xiaolu Guo
Novelist
Wu Cheng'en
Novelist
Wright Morris
Novelist
Thursday, Jan 06, 1910
Saturday, Apr 25, 1998
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
Novelist
Tuesday, May 07, 1867
Saturday, Dec 05, 1925
Witold Gombrowicz
Novelist
Thursday, Aug 04, 1904
Thursday, Jul 24, 1969

View All Novelist Quotes

Top Authors

Aristotle
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Voltaire
Writer
Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
Saturday, May 30, 1778
Walt Whitman
Poet
Monday, May 31, 1819
Saturday, Mar 26, 1892
Bob Marley
Singer
Tuesday, Feb 06, 1945
Monday, May 11, 1981
Mahatma Gandhi
Civil Rights Leader
Saturday, Oct 02, 1869
Friday, Jan 30, 1948
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
Thursday, Nov 02, 1950
Jordan Peterson
Psychologist
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Sunday, Sep 12, 1880
Sunday, Jan 29, 1956
Barack Obama
44Th U.s. President
Friday, Aug 04, 1961
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Thursday, Jul 30, 1863
Monday, Apr 07, 1947
Tyler, The Creator
Rapper
Wednesday, Mar 06, 1991
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist
Monday, Jul 26, 1875
Tuesday, Jun 06, 1961
Peter Drucker
Author
Friday, Nov 19, 1909
Friday, Nov 11, 2005
Heraclitus
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

View All Authors

Share This Page