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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Paddy Ashdown Quotes

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Paddy Ashdown

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown


I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
Paddy Ashdown

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
Paddy Ashdown

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
Paddy Ashdown

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Paddy Ashdown

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
Paddy Ashdown

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
Paddy Ashdown

Politics is compromise.
Paddy Ashdown

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown

John Ashcroft Quotes


Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
John Ashcroft

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.
John Ashcroft

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
John Ashcroft


I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.
John Ashcroft

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
John Ashcroft

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
John Ashcroft

It's a different world.
John Ashcroft

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
John Ashcroft

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
John Ashcroft

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
John Ashcroft

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk.
John Ashcroft

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
John Ashcroft

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.
John Ashcroft

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.
John Ashcroft

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
John Ashcroft

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.
John Ashcroft

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism purposes.
John Ashcroft

The path we have chosen is constitutional.
John Ashcroft

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
John Ashcroft

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
John Ashcroft

Richie Ashburn Quotes

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
Richie Ashburn

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
Richie Ashburn

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
Richie Ashburn

John Ashbery Quotes

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
John Ashbery

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
John Ashbery

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
John Ashbery


The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery

Mary Kay Ash Quotes

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Mary Kay Ash

Criticize the act, not the person.
Mary Kay Ash

Dare to risk public criticism.
Mary Kay Ash

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Every silver lining has a cloud.
Mary Kay Ash

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Mary Kay Ash

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
Mary Kay Ash

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Mary Kay Ash

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash

People fall forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash

Timothy Garton Ash Quotes

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
Timothy Garton Ash

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
Timothy Garton Ash

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
Timothy Garton Ash


Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
Timothy Garton Ash

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Timothy Garton Ash

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.
Timothy Garton Ash

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.
Timothy Garton Ash

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Timothy Garton Ash

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
Timothy Garton Ash

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.
Timothy Garton Ash

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
Timothy Garton Ash

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Timothy Garton Ash

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.
Timothy Garton Ash

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
Timothy Garton Ash

Roger Ascham Quotes

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
Roger Ascham

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Roger Ascham

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Roger Ascham


In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
Roger Ascham

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
Roger Ascham

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
Roger Ascham

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham

Sholem Asch Quotes

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Sholem Asch

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
Sholem Asch


The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
Sholem Asch

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
Sholem Asch

Francis Asbury Quotes

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
Francis Asbury

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.
Francis Asbury

Owen Arthur Quotes

For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Owen Arthur

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
Owen Arthur


Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
Owen Arthur

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Owen Arthur

Chester A. Arthur Quotes

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
Chester A. Arthur


The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Chester A. Arthur

Bea Arthur Quotes

After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno.
Bea Arthur

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
Bea Arthur

I can't imagine working without and audience.
Bea Arthur


I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
Bea Arthur

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
Bea Arthur

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
Bea Arthur

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
Bea Arthur

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
Bea Arthur

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
Bea Arthur

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
Bea Arthur

Lucy was lovely.
Bea Arthur

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
Bea Arthur

No fruit. No veggie.
Bea Arthur

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
Bea Arthur

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
Bea Arthur

Gemma Arterton Quotes

I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
Gemma Arterton

My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
Gemma Arterton

Antonin Artaud Quotes

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
Antonin Artaud


I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Antonin Artaud

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

Those who live, live off the dead.
Antonin Artaud

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud

When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Quotes

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo


I'm not worried. I'm in control.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Kenneth Joseph Arrow Quotes

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

Arrian Quotes

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
Arrian

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.
Arrian


They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way.
Arrian

Claude Arrau Quotes

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.
Claude Arrau

Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined.
Claude Arrau

Rosanna Arquette Quotes

Art is such an important part of our culture.
Rosanna Arquette

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
Rosanna Arquette

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.
Rosanna Arquette


I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
Rosanna Arquette

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
Rosanna Arquette

I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts.
Rosanna Arquette

I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Rosanna Arquette

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.
Rosanna Arquette

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.
Rosanna Arquette

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
Rosanna Arquette

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
Rosanna Arquette

It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.
Rosanna Arquette

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.
Rosanna Arquette

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.
Rosanna Arquette

Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.
Rosanna Arquette

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.
Rosanna Arquette

Most men are not that evolved.
Rosanna Arquette

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.
Rosanna Arquette

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.
Rosanna Arquette

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?
Rosanna Arquette

Patricia Arquette Quottes


I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
Patricia Arquette

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette


I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
Patricia Arquette

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
Patricia Arquette

We all have our own little thing, I think.
Patricia Arquette