Abba Eban Quotes

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Abba Eban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: israeli
  • Birth: February 2, 1915 - November 17, 2002

Topics

ResolutionEarthVoteIsraelPass

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

John Engler

AgendaImportanceLearnedHaving

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Amity Shlaes

WarWorldWorld War IOutForever

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

John T. Flynn

HandsWillFascismComeAuthentic

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Sugar Ray Leonard

KissPeopleSeeingBackGroundGot

People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

Mike O'Malley

WomenTruthBaseballPeopleMeTeam

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Michael LeBoeuf

BusinessBestStrategyCustomer

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be rewoven.

Louise Bourgeois

LifeBusinessGirlParentsYoung

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.

Jonathan Coleman

PeopleThoughtsActionImpossible

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Donny Osmond

LifeGoalsTimeStepThinkLook

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Aristophanes

TravelRoadFriendsYouLostDead

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

Aubrey O'Day

LifeLiveMy LifeAlwaysEverybody

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

William Hurt

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