Moshe Quotes

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. ~ Moshe Sharett

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today. ~ Moshe Dayan

I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values. ~ Moshe Katsav

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime. ~ Moshe Sharett

Israeli minister of defense Moshe Dayan - the architect of Israel's astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day War - also wrote an essay on the story of David and Goliath. According to Dayan, David fought Goliath not with inferior but (on the contrary) with superior weaponry; and his greatness consisted not in his being willing to go out into battle against someone far stronger than he was. But in his knowing how to exploit a weapon by which a feeble person could seize the advantage and become stronger. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people, ~ Moshe Ya'alon

The Two Caps Rabbi David Moshe, the son of the rabbi of Rizhyn, once said to a hasid: "You knew my father when he lived in Sadagora and was already wearing the black cap and going his way in dejection; but you did not see him when he lived in Rizhyn and was still wearing his golden cap." The hasid was astonished. "How is it possible that the holy man from Rizhyn ever went his way in dejection! Did not I myself hear him say that dejection is the lowest condition!" "And after he had reached the summit," Rabbi David replied, "he had to descend to that condition time and again in order to redeem the souls which had sunk down to it. ~ Martin Buber

Moshe was a tall Israeli with an ear-splitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness. Hearing the laugh made me blink instinctively, like hearing a hammer pound on brick or metal. Our conversation was impeded by having to watch him through the strobe effect of my convulsing eyes. ~ Alex Garland

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness. ~ Alex Garland

As the people of Ein Hod were marched into despossession, Moshe and his comrades guarded and looted the newly emptied village. While Dalia lay heartbroken, delirious with the loss of Ismael, Jolanta rocked David to sleep. While Hasan tended to his family's survival, Moshe sang in drunken revelry with his fellow soldiers. And while Yehya and the others moved in anguished steps away from their land, the usurpers sand "Hatikva," and shouted, "Long live Israel! ~ Susan Abulhawa

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine. ~ Moshe Safdie

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant ... ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal. ~ Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant. ~ Ariel Sharon

I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told the story, obviously. I wanted it be comedy first, because I felt like there already had been childhood druggy stories that were very serious, and I felt that the unique thing here was that I was a comic and I could tell the story with some levity, and I have been laughing at these stories my whole life. ~ Moshe Kasher

The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations. ~ Moshe Katsav

We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village. ~ Moshe Dayan

We are a small nation, but strong. ~ Moshe Dayan

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. ~ Moshe Dayan

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do. ~ Moshe Safdie

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. ~ Moshe Safdie

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction. ~ Moshe Safdie

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them. ~ Moshe Sharett

Most important, don't do anything you don't want. ~ Moshe Dayan

There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it. ~ Bodie Thoene

Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together. ~ Moshe Arens

The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away. ~ Moshe Sharett

Exhibit 6.2 Cost of $1,000 in Monthly Lifetime Annuity Income, Starting at Age 65 Year Male Female 2004 $157,432 $167,818 2005 $157,255 $167,817 2006 $151,700 $161,363 2007 $151,524 $160,966 2008 $147,953 $155,843 2009 $156,500 $165,502 2010 $170,116 $178,410 2011 $174,828 $182,952 2012 $187,008 $195,216 2013 $183,728 $191,571 Average $163,804 $172,746 Source: CANNEX Financial Exchanges for non-COLA-adjusted qualified annuity income with a 10-year guarantee for California. ~ Moshe A. Milevsky

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name. ~ Moshe Dayan

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. ~ Moshe Safdie

Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel ~ Moshe Feiglin

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black. ~ Moshe Kasher

We have no solution ... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads. ~ Moshe Dayan

We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm. ~ Moshe Safdie

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home. ~ Moshe Dayan

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time. ~ Moshe Sharett

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week. ~ Moshe Dayan

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal. ~ Moshe Dayan

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped. ~ Moshe Dayan

I have the strength to endure it all. ~ Moshe Dayan

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories. ~ Moshe Sharett

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. ~ Moshe Arens

It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective. ~ Moshe Dayan

Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop. ~ Moshe Kasher

Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance. ~ Moshe Sharett

In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands. ~ Moshe Dayan

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. ~ Moshe Dayan

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land. ~ Moshe Katsav

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this. ~ Moshe Sharett

In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches. ~ Moshe Feiglin

I try firstly to make buildings humane. ~ Moshe Safdie

Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really. ~ Moshe Arens

When a work becomes canonical its internal order and logic are guaranteed by the collective will of the canonical community. Its consonance with the known truths and reality outside the text is similarly committed to. What Frank Kermode referred to as the Principle of Complementarity is the willed assumption of the community that has invested value and meaning in a text that the text must make sense within itself and against its extratextual surroundings.9 It cannot suffer from senseless internal contradictions. It cannot clash with what is known to be true outside the text. What the biblical scholar Moshe Halbertal termed the Principle of Charity is the willingness of a canonical community to read its texts in the best possible light and in a way that defuses or elides contradictions with truth or order. ~ Jonathan A.C. Brown

My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

Standing is harder than moving. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

Every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose. ~ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant. ~ Moshe Sharett

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s. ~ Moshe Kasher

I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world. ~ Moshe Katsav

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole. ~ Moshe Katsav

There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind? ~ David Harvey

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population. ~ Moshe Dayan

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor. ~ Moshe Dayan

I am against intervention by a foreign power against us. ~ Moshe Sharett

Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

Though I did not write about neurofeedback in detail, I trained in it, and learned an immense amount about changing the brain from these neurofeedback scientists and clinicians, in supervision, in courses or through their writings: John Finnick, Moshe Perl, Sebern Fisher, Ed Hamlin, Lynda Thompson, Michael Thompson, Len Ochs, and Jaclyn Gisburne. ~ Norman Doidge

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population. ~ Moshe Dayan

You must have six boxes of cat food in that cupboard."
"Moshe gets cranky if I don't keep a variety."
After tasking his breakfast, Alan found it better than he had expected. "I have a hard time understanding anyone as strong-willed as you being intimidated by a temperamental cat."
Shelby lifted her shoulders and continued to eat. "We all have our weaknesses.Besides,as roommates go, he's perfect.He doesn't listen in on my phone calls or borrow my clothes."
"Are those your prerequisites?"
"They're certainly in the top ten."
Watching her,Alan nodded. She'd plowed hre way through the toast in record time. "If I promised to restrain myself from doing either of those things, would you marry me? ~ Nora Roberts

It is the obligation of each person in Israel to raise up the Fallen Bride from the dust into which She has fallen. ~ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves. ~ Moshe Safdie

This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us. ~ Moshe Safdie

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained. ~ Moshe Kupferman

If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF. ~ Moshe Ya'alon

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. ~ Moshe Safdie

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

When you know what you're doing, you can do what you want." -Moshe Feldenkrais ~ Cheryl L. Ilov

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ~ Moshe Sharett

No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending the country. That's important and it needs to be corrected. Part of the integration is also taking it on themselves the burden, if you will, or the obligation to defend their country. ~ Moshe Arens

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest. ~ Moshe Dayan

As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us. ~ Moshe Sharett

Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother. ~ Moshe Dayan

Inequality makes the pie of things smaller, yet economists measure the size of the pie not by how much substance it contains but by its price. It is entirely possible, therefore, for economists to measure as growth what most people experience as economic decline. ~ Moshe Adler

I told you I was a fucking cowboy. ~ Moshe Kasher

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts. ~ Moshe Dayan

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger of Mesivta Beis Shraga related how his father used to say that on Purim, the handle of the gragger (noisemaker) we spin is beneath the gragger itself, while on Chanukah the handle of the dreidel (four-sided top) we spin is on top. Purim, he expounded, represents human initiative, an "awakening from below," while Chanukah represents Divine intervention, an "awakening from above." On Purim, we stir ourselves with drink, joy, a hearty meal and other activities. On Chanukah, we light a candle that we are not allowed to use for any purpose other than to gaze at its flame. We just sit back and look. We let Hashem take over. We remind ourselves that Hashem is running the show. ~ Yaakov Astor

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers. ~ Moshe Safdie

Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation. ~ Natalie Zemon Davis

Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. ~ Moshe Sharett

I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. ~ Moshe Safdie

Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. ~ Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul ~ Moshe Dayan

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table. ~ Moshe Dayan

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past. ~ Moshe Safdie