Eshkol Quotes & Sayings

In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that. — Ingrid Betancourt

We were good together. Not in retrospect, not out of nostalgia. Not in anticipation. But here and now good. Very good. — Eshkol Nevo

Writing means making things large. — Christa Wolf

In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt suitable countermeasures against the focal points of sabotage. Israel will continue to take action to prevent any and all attempts to perpetrate sabotage within her territory. There will be no immunity for any state which aids or abets such acts. — Levi Eshkol

An old French mathematician said: A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. This clearness and ease of comprehension, here insisted on for a mathematical theory, I should still more demand for a mathematical problem if it is to be perfect; for what is clear and easily comprehended attracts, the complicated repels us. — David Hilbert

Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties. — Levi Eshkol

Water is the blood in our veins. — Levi Eshkol

I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise. — Ian Astbury

However, I assured her that if he found he couldn't stand it I would fix him so that he could. — Mark Twain

Dayan and Eshkol were against taking the Golan Heights from the Syrians. Syrian troops, they both insisted, had thus far made no effort to cross the northern border, and both feared that extending the war to the north would provide the Soviets with an excuse to intervene. But others disagreed. On June 8, David Elazar (commander of Israel's northern front) went to Eshkol to try to convince him to take the Golan. — Daniel Gordis

Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all — Levi Eshkol

She stopped over the ledge where he worked and she stood watching him openly. When he raised his head, she did not turn away. Her glance told him that she knew the meaning of her action, but did not respect him enough to conceal it. His glance told her only that he had expected her to come. — Ayn Rand