Top 1063 Quotes & Sayings by Israeli Authors - Page 3

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.

Really, a wedding is the first and biggest party people throw in their lifetime, so there's a lot of challenges and a lot of pressure.

I was born in a tiny little enclave of terrified Jewish refugees, less than half a million of them, with no clear perspective of a future - hopes, yes, but no clear perspective.

My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

'Nothing But the Truth' is a journalistic thriller that is set during the end of days for print media.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.

If you want people to take action,you must refrain from giving them the answers.

Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corporations - Google, Intel and Motorola, to name but a few - maintain research and development facilities here, and our technology start-ups continue to be acquired by the likes of AOL, eBay and IBM.

My mom's side is very Orthodox, and my dad's side is the opposite, very liberal. I got a taste of both worlds, and I got to make up my own mind. I'm somewhere in the middle, which is a good place to be.

Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?

The hope is that we'll continue to create jobs for the vast majority of people. But if the situation arises that this is less and less the case, then we need to rethink, how do we make sure that everybody can make a living?

At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

If a guy treats me respectfully and the waiter demeaningly, I'm turned off.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential.

I am certain that Gadi Lesin's abilities and the experience he accumulated during his sixteen years in a variety of general management roles in Strauss Group in and outside of Israel will enable him, together with group management and all managers and employees of Strauss, to continue to take the group forward to further success.

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

A humble scientist is a good scientist.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.

'All the President's Men' is a movie that has a very personal place for me because it made me want to be a journalist, and then it made me want to be a filmmaker.

We have to be responsible in what we say as leaders.

I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

Netanyahu personally is leading the campaign against the Arabs.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

I don't even have the plaques in my house - the gold and platinum-selling plaques. I gave them to my parents and grandparents. It was never about the numbers, never about the money. It was always about the music. That's all I care about.

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future.

When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing.

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

I see my music as a visual thing. When I'm on stage I am very expressive with my face and through my performance - kind of like an actress but not really, it just rises up from inside with the music.

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people.

The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilities are the only nuclear installations that we can definitely see and credibly target.

I am a very poppy little girl. I wasn't allowed to be poppy at first because y'know in my mind, pop stars are thin and beautiful and light, and I've never felt beautiful, skinny and light.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

When you work for a long time, you look for things that excite you.

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years.

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.