Ami Ayalon Quotes

#1. An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

Ami Ayalon

#2. It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.

Ami Ayalon

#3. I don't know about forgiving, but it's an "I'm still here." And it's not just because I have nowhere else to go. It's because I believe in the possibility. I believe in the possibility of another way of being. Let's make other kinds of mistakes; let's be flawed differently.

Claudia Rankine

#4. Never be ashamed to accept a gift when there are no strings attached.

Sylvain Reynard

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

Ami Ayalon

#6. Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

Neil Leifer

#7. Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Ami Ayalon

#8. To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

A.H. Almaas

#9. Beauty is the lover's gift.

William Congreve

#10. You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

Ami Ayalon

#11. If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Aristotle.

#12. The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.

Stephen King

#13. Ackbar interjects: But we also must recognize the Empire's ability to play the long game. Our victory over Endor was fortunate, but the Empire orchestrated that trap with great patience.

Chuck Wendig

#14. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

Ami Ayalon

#15. We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

Ami Ayalon

#16. The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

Ami Ayalon

#17. Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

Ami Ayalon

#18. Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

James Buchan

#19. The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

Ami Ayalon

#20. Frustration is not a work plan.

Ami Ayalon

#21. In moments of pain, we seek revenge.

Ami Ayalon

#22. To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

Virginia Woolf

#23. There was a period just after the inevitability of ruin hove into view and just before it smashed into the hull of your life that was the closest to pure freedom anybody got.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#24. It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

Harbhajan Singh