Everything Quotes

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

I would never allow anyone to give me money, no difference how badly I needed it. I wanted literally to earn my living.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

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.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Being seventy is not a sin.

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.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

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.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

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.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

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.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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.

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.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

My friends are my estate.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.