Giora Kaplan Quotes

#1. Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction
a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology. #Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

#2. Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy. #Quote by Nelly Kaplan

#3. It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything. #Quote by Robert S. Kaplan

#4. In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#5. As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#6. I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#7. In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness ... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers. #Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

#8. Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. "Why do people want to adopt another culture?" she asks as she summarizes her journey into teaching and into life. "Because there's something in their own they don't like, that doesn't name them."5 #Quote by Parker J. Palmer

#9. Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#10. Monsters pick their noses. #Quote by Mark Adam Kaplan

#11. When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out. #Quote by Philip J. Kaplan

#12. I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#13. Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening. #Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

#14. Elaine's lows were low, but her highs were...well her highs were magic that transformed mere earth, air, and water into the breath of life. #Quote by Mark Adam Kaplan

#15. Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority. #Quote by Justin Kaplan

#16. Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#17. Richard leans on his stick. He takes a deep breath and begins to speak. "What a fucked up night? We get this tip that some clown is moving in, I fly off the handle, and off some poor schmuck's wife and I shoot the bastard. To make matters worse, I chop his fucking arm off." Vincent takes a shot and retorts. "The whole scene was fucking Shakespearean. Comedy juxtaposed against a tragic backdrop. #Quote by Z.S. Kaplan

#18. For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will. #Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

#19. I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#20. Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes. #Quote by Janice Kaplan

#21. Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. #Quote by Abraham Kaplan

#22. Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend. #Quote by Jared Kushner

#23. Notice that your judgments of what exists are the same kind of judgments you make about how to live your life. There aren't two kinds of things we do: judge what exists and decide what we want to do about it. Fundamentally, there is one kind of thing we do: live our lives. And we can reflect on this activity more or less abstractly. #Quote by Eric Kaplan

#24. I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#25. Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#26. The United States was a great power less because of its ideas than because, with direct access to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, it was "the most favored state in the world from the point of view of location. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#27. Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and Central Europe; and service and physical conditions that resembled those in Africa. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#28. The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#29. As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that. #Quote by Bruce Eric Kaplan

#30. Indeed, Chicago seems to have literally sucked the air out of Springfield: another case of American becoming a network of massive city-states more intimately interconnected with other continents than with their own hinterlands. It is in the merging with the rest of the world and global civilization that the forces of division come to the fore at home. Springfield: another small city that should inspire but doesn't. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#31. I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education. #Quote by Jose Ferreira

#32. In autumn velvety shawls of maroon and sienna drape hillsides that fold down upon willow-braided streams. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#33. While we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to affect historical outcomes in Eurasia, we are curiously passive about what is happening to a country with which we share a long land border, that verges on disorder, and whose population is close to double that of Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Surely, #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#34. For two thousand years, the closer to Carthage (roughly the site of modern-day Tunis) the greater the level of development. Because urbanization in Tunisia started two millennia ago, tribal identity based on nomadism - which the medieval historian Ibn Khaldun said disrupted political stability - is correspondingly weak. Indeed, after the Roman general Scipio defeated Hannibal in 202 B.C. outside Tunis, he dug a demarcation ditch, or fossa regia, that marked the extent of civilized territory. The fossa regia remains relevant to the current Middle East crisis. Still visible in places, it runs from Tabarka on Tunisia's northwestern coast southward, and turns directly eastward to Sfax, another Mediterranean port. The #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#35. The revolution was a gift from God to the Romanian people. The Romanian people must now repay this gift by opening their hearts to people of all faiths, especially to those who suffered here in the past. #Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

#36. Mothers...accept when they have to, let go when they must, but watch out; they'll also turn their back on whoever hurts their child so quickly you'll feel the wind cut your face. #Quote by Hester Kaplan

#37. GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal. #Quote by Linda Kaplan Thaler