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 MEIRI’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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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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