Yisrael Meir Lau Quotes

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. ~ Meir Kahane

Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not. ~ Meir Soloveichik

Thinking is the process of trying to figure out prior cause. ~ Meir Ezra

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. ~ Golda Meir

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win. ~ Golda Meir

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies. ~ Andrew Lau

Optimism is the source of havingness. ~ Meir Ezra

If a person argues with you, know they are uncertain. ~ Meir Ezra

Bad news is bad news because it drops your willingness to carry on. ~ Meir Ezra

For as long as you have a purpose, you put out energy; and the moment you stop having a purpose, you consume energy. ~ Meir Ezra

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists. ~ Meir Kahane

I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. - JIM LAU ~ Joe Hyams

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed. ~ Golda Meir

You are the only one who can grant beingness to you. ~ Meir Ezra

You can't improve on saying nothing. ~ Golda Meir

If you have a problem, it means you are very powerful. ~ Meir Ezra

Meir, let me ask you something," I said after a while.
"Sure."
"Do you think I'm a bad person?"
"Only God knows that for sure, Willy."
"So you don't have an opinion at all?"
"Not one that really matters."
"Okay, let me ask you something else. If the Polish peasant who hid Jews from the Nazis is a hero, what is the Polish peasant who turned the Jews away? Is he a coward?"
Meir smiled, "Of course."
"Really? A coward? A bad man?"
"A coward isn't a bad man, necessarily. You can't know if you're a bad man until you die."
"You've got to wait until you hear god's decision?"
"Well, yes, that's true. But I meant something else. Only when you die do you run out of chances to be good. Until then, there is always the possibility of turning yourself around. ~ Zoe Heller

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

The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror. ~ Avigdor Lieberman

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. ~ Golda Meir

The Rebbe Maharash once said:119 "Of what use is Chassidus and yiras Shamayim, fear of Heaven, if the main thing - ahavas Yisrael - is missing?" A "chassid" is one who is dedicated to seeking the best for another120 and who gives up personal benefits for another's good121 even when personal gain is not assured and the benefit for the other is doubtful.122 As ~ Nissan Dovid Dubov

Responsibility is knowing you are cause. ~ Meir Ezra

You should and can help everyone. You should help every stray dog in the street. There is no limit on how much you can help. ~ Meir Ezra

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be. ~ Golda Meir

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa. ~ Meir Soloveichik

Put the next second there in front of you and don't be impressed by what you see. ~ Meir Ezra

The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is. ~ Meir Ezra

A person who is happy is not thinking about the past. ~ Meir Ezra

The only way to help people is to see the good in them ~ Meir Ezra

The only thing you have is communication. ~ Meir Ezra

Ascend a step to choose a friend, descend a step to choose a wife. ~ Rabbi Meir

Your most important ability is the ability to be willing to win and lose with the same level of enthusiasm ~ Meir Ezra

By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill. ~ Uri Avnery

Be certain independent of facts, when you doubt yourself, you cannot be, you cannot do and you cannot have. ~ Meir Ezra

You cannot be rich and right. To be rich, you must be in control. Control brings income. When you insist on being right, you give up control. ~ Meir Ezra

Anything that forwards you toward certainty can be considered good. ~ Meir Ezra

You know you are the creator when what you've created has zero and ultimate value. ~ Meir Ezra

Mine is the tongue tied silence of awkwardness, hers the smiling silence of anticipation, and then we utter inanities to each other, like "beautiful weather arranged for us" and "I like these kind of clouds. ~ Meir Shalev

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

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there. ~ Meir Shalev

Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago. ~ Meir Kahane

Your wealth is a measure of how much you trust yourself. ~ Meir Ezra

When you need to have it, you lose. If you have it without needing to have it, you gain all the benefits and none of the liabilities of having it. ~ Meir Ezra

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think. ~ Golda Meir

You are as wealthy as you trust yourself. ~ Meir Ezra

In this universe ideas are senior to facts, and hence facts are stressed. ~ Meir Ezra

The only way to do a lot of work is to make it fun. ~ Meir Ezra

Time is a continuous doubt. When you don't have time, know you are in doubt. ~ Meir Ezra

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God. ~ Meir Soloveichik