top of page
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz

"But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort."

Standard 
 Customized
"But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort."

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Explore more quotes by Amos Oz

Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state."
Quote_1.png
Amos Oz
"The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic."
bottom of page