Quote by Leonard Cohen
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not,

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nations sweetest dreams of itself. – Leonard Cohen

Other quotes by Leonard Cohen

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. – Leonard Cohen

Category:
Pollution
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that youre not and thats what you always reach for in a song. – Leonard Cohen

Category:
Women
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. Its for others its for others to use. – Leonard Cohen

Category:
Poetry
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Other Quotes from
Dreams
category

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Dreams

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. – Ralph Lauren

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Dreams

Youve got to have a dream… if you dont have any big dreams, nothing happens. – Ian Rush

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Dreams

That disturbs people when they know they didnt have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams. – Sandra Bernhard

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Dreams

Random Quotes

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Love

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Wisdom

Theres no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
Theres such a thing as keeping
A remembrance in ones heart… – Charlotte Bronte

Category:
Grief, Grieving

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Sincerity