Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn't always come out exactly like you envisioned it.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

And that’s the way it is

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

Sometimes, you don't see what you've got to change unless something happens, like a loss.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.

Let go of your expectations. The universe will do what it will. Sometimes your dreams will come true. Sometimes they won't. Sometimes when you let go of a broken dream, another one gently takes its place. Be aware of what is, not what you would like to be, taking place.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.