Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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.
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