Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIRAt 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.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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