Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.