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.
GOLDA MEIRDon’t be humble… you’re not that great.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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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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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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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