Shimon Peres Famous Quotes
Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle East peace initiative)
"Leading the Jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level."
It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic.
"He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier."
"He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible."
"Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)"
"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."
Shimon Peres Quotations
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with."
Charles Farrar Browne
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
Willa Sibert Cather
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
Francis Bacon
"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
Marquis de La Grange
"If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man."
John Milton
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
Joyce
"Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it - and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape That's retirement."
Stephen Butler Leacock