My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
GOLDA MEIRIt’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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