#her

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#became #capital #charm #convinced #criticism

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#editor #guru #hebrew #house #i

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#away #bombs #call #corrupt #culture

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. ↗

— Pericles

#engraved #into #leave #lives #monuments

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#assassinations #businessmen #eight #first #first time

Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#each #friends #governing #governments #hate

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#build #choice #cost #future #important

We do not imitate, but are a model to others. ↗

— Pericles

#model #others

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill. ↗

— Pericles

#glory #good #greatest #greatest glory #ill

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#bar #club #go #going #meet