You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIRNot being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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