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 MEIRBy the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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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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