Yitzhak Navon Quotes

The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

Yitzhak Navon

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• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Red

• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Like
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• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • War
  • History
  • Legacy

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
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  • Islam

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Age
  • Restaurant

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Holidays

• Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • America
  • Hair
  • Color

• I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.

  

  A. J. Foyt
  • Way
  • Just
  • Guess

• For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stage

• I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

  

  Lou Harrison

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

  John Moody

• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Past
  • Blessing

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English