Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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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 will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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