Mark Potok quote: "The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration."

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MARK POTOK

I mean from Germans to Irish Catholics to Jews to Hispanics virtually the same kinds of things have ...
MARK POTOK

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and ...
MARK POTOK

meeting with extremist anti-government groups and inoculating them against anthrax.
MARK POTOK

[Most agree that the prosecution of killers whose identity was an open secret has had a salutary eff...
MARK POTOK

Is Bill White the next David Duke? Out of the question. He will never rise to that level,
MARK POTOK

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
CHAIM POTOK

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal...
CHAIM POTOK

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul
CHAIM POTOK

All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spiri...
CHAIM POTOK

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. De...
CHAIM POTOK

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimen...
CHAIM POTOK

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. ...
CHAIM POTOK

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t kno...
CHAIM POTOK

Something that is yours forever is never precious
CHAIM POTOK

It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
CHAIM POTOK

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will e...
CHAIM POTOK

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
CHAIM POTOK

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounter...
CHAIM POTOK

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of tha...
CHAIM POTOK

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called histor...
CHAIM POTOK

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about r...
CHAIM POTOK

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.
CHAIM POTOK

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it i...
CHAIM POTOK

Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is som...
CHAIM POTOK

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in mat...
CHAIM POTOK

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal...
CHAIM POTOK

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
CHAIM POTOK

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life. It is hard work t...
CHAIM POTOK

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again...
CHAIM POTOK

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to...
CHAIM POTOK

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di...
CHAIM POTOK

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe...
CHAIM POTOK

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship o...
CHAIM POTOK

It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight o...
CHAIM POTOK

Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well,
CHAIM POTOK

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I n...
CHAIM POTOK

We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and ...
CHAIM POTOK

In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ...
CHAIM POTOK

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn fr...
CHAIM POTOK

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
CHAIM POTOK

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think ...
CHAIM POTOK

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.
CHAIM POTOK

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have p...
CHAIM POTOK

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
CHAIM POTOK

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all...
CHAIM POTOK

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the medi...
CHAIM POTOK

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than t...
CHAIM POTOK

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those begi...
CHAIM POTOK

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the no...
CHAIM POTOK

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'unive...
CHAIM POTOK

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about...
CHAIM POTOK

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only r...
CHAIM POTOK

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
CHAIM POTOK

An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ...
MARK SHRIVER

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN

The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori...
MARK FOLEY

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN

I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN

All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN

There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL

I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON

Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON

If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN

When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN

Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN

As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN

All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO

There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI

I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD

I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST

We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE

We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI

The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,...
MARK ZANDI

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi...
MARK WAHLBERG

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN

If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'...
MARK FUHRMAN

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea...
MARK RUFFALO

Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN

Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN

Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN

Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST

The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.

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The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.

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