Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
GOLDA MEIRThe public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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