You should also look for able men among all the people, men who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate dishonest gain; set such men o...ver them as officers over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Let them sit as judges for the people at all times; let them bring every important case to you, but decide every minor case themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for... the artist; since what happened to them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we sent our first child off to school I experienced a jarring moment, an epiphany. I had been teaching young children for man...y years, advising parents on a wide range of issues, including the best and most painless ways to separate from their youngsters at school. When my own time came, I found that all my good advice to others was impossible to follow myself.... I felt like a midwife friend of mine who had assisted in the births of hundreds of babies before her own first child was born. In the middle of labor she cried out, "I've told hundreds of women, 'you can do it,' and it can't be done."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxin...g, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet ...way ever since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you i...n your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have more in common with a Mexican man than with a white woman.... This opinion ... chagrins women who sincerely believe our fem...ale physiology unequivocally binds all women throughout the world, despite the compounded social prejudices that daily affect us all in different ways. Although women everywhere experience life differently from men everywhere, white women are members of a race that has proclaimed itself globally superior for hundreds of years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, o...r my mother or my sister--anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.... When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him.... We have no house, no place, no people of our own. We live in the streets, in the parks, in the theatres. We sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »