"It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II]'."

-- Golda Meir

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Coffee Quotes

“I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.”

Source : Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.91, Cambridge University Press
“No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2012). “The Homelanders”, p.326, Thomas Nelson Inc
“You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.16, Vintage
“Anybody that I like that you talk to about me will probably agree that when I'm hanging out with someone one-on-one, I have a tendency to build this attitude toward the world outside of us, it's us and them. I'm with you here, and you're with me, and we are in the club and everybody else out there is in that shitty club. The positive is I make people feel really special, and I also make some people really uncomfortable and judged, and I'm working on that.”
“My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.”
“Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.”
“The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.”
“I find it difficult to accept that it is the will of God that humanity should degrade, deface, desolate, and ultimately perhaps destroy His Creation on Earth. Yet this is the course on which we are embarked.”

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