Nissim Ezekiel Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.”
-- Nissim Ezekiel

Source : Nissim Ezekiel (1976). “Hymns in darkness”

#Usual Quotes #Saint Quotes #Sin Quotes
“My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.”
-- Nissim Ezekiel

Source : Nissim Ezekiel (1966). “Poetry India”

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Thank God Quotes

“As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
“The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.”
“When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.”
“The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'”
“At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.”
“As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.”
“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”
“Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.”
“He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.”
“Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.”

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