#acted

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#attacks #been #bullet #coming #could

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it. ↗

— Ann Richards

#administration #after #days #decisiveness #i

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#attracted #character #happen #high #high school

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#administration #because #both #bush #bush administration

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#america #country #did #invasion #last

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#being #cinema #creating #drawn #i

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#being #black #black hole #black holes #create

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#first #first time #had #live #living

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation. ↗

— Britney Spears

#confident #conversation #guys #i #make

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#clause #enacted #equal #equal protection #galleries