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Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. — Isaac D'Israeli

A poet is a painter of the soul. — Isaac D'Israeli

My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am ... I can't win. — Alona Tal

Candour is the brightest gem of criticism. — Isaac D'Israeli

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. — Isaac D'Israeli

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. — Isaac D'Israeli

Write it down and it will come alive. — Efrat Israeli

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. — Ahmed Yassin

Mom's Israeli. Dad's Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department — Ally Carter

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. — Isaac D'Israeli

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people. — Ariel Sharon

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. — Jack Schwartz

If there is a birthrate demographic problem, and there is, it is with the non-White races Israeli Arabs who are American will remain Israeli citizens. — Benjamin Netanyahu

(Israeli-style eggs poached in tomato — Brian B.

The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region. — Yair Lapid

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security. — Chuck Hagel

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. — Noam Chomsky

I will tell you that the special relationship that America has with the Israeli people transcends any of the politics. — Kevin McCarthy

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition. — Aaron Ciechanover

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about. — Richard Engel

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed. — Susan Abulhawa

Israeli government & the neocons want US to bomb Iran. — Ron Paul

Am I an Israeli? That's a good question. — Beny Steinmetz

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli

In a speech at Bar Ilan university, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time endorses the establishment of a Palestinian state. — Martin Bunton

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. — Isaac D'Israeli

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism. — Tom DeLay

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time. — Eric Bana

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. — A. B. Yehoshua

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests. — Bashar Al-Assad

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture. — Mili Avital

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far. — Ronald Reagan

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli

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

Beware of the man of one book.
[Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.] — Isaac D'Israeli

When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view. — Shimon Peres

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire. — Isaac D'Israeli

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style. — Isaac D'Israeli

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats. — Isaac D'Israeli

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

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner. — Isaac D'Israeli

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website. — Chris Hedges

As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli. — Zubin Mehta

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius. — Isaac D'Israeli

Being a Jew and an Israeli are inseparable things. — Yair Lapid

One may quote till one compiles. — Isaac D'Israeli

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved until the human rights of the other are recognized and guaranteed. — Walter Brueggemann

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel. — Antonio Munoz Molina

I have no interest in Israeli citizenship ... Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel. — Mordechai Vanunu

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. — Isaac D'Israeli

It is wrong to say the U.S. should 'not take sides' in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. — Howard Berman

We were
existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us
fully. — Susan Abulhawa

We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland. — Ahmed Yassin

If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. — Andrew Bacevich

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. — Isaac D'Israeli

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. — Zubin Mehta

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. — Jimmy Carter

Just a little piece of peace can cultivate the land of Palestine, but inhuman human won't let it do that ... — Munia Khan

All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land. — Rick Santorum

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. — Hassan Al-Banna

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. — Steven Spielberg

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. — Isaac D'Israeli

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics. — Jill Soloway

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli. — John Conyers

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. — Douglas Feith

Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten. — Bashar Al-Assad

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers ... — Isaac D'Israeli

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. — Hanna Rosin

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. — Isaac D'Israeli

Our priority is still the liberation of our land and the protection of Lebanon from the Israeli threat. — Hassan Nasrallah

Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies. — Helen Thomas

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. — Isaac D'Israeli

The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system. — Nelson Mandela

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there. — Elliott Abrams

Jehovah, the great and mighty God of Israel, protects and gives His warriors victory over His enemies, Selah."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. — Isaac D'Israeli

Enough of blood and tears. Enough! — Yitzhak Rabin

I'm a United States senator. I'm not an Israeli senator. — Chuck Hagel

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people. — Ismail Haniyeh

It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can't expect an unhealthy person to think logically. — Izzeldin Abuelaish

An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier. — Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics. — Mohammed Dahlan

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader. — Rafik Hariri

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest. — Isaac D'Israeli

If the [captured Israeli] soldiers are not returned, we will turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years. — Dan Halutz

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism. — Bob Hawke

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times. — Isaac D'Israeli

Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process. — King Hussein

You can't have occupation and human rights. — Christopher Hitchens

Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him. — Hassan Nasrallah

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Steven Spielberg

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. — Ehud Olmert