#bet

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. ↗

— John Abizaid

#because #better #bin #boss #clearly

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#effort #i #i can #letter #love

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#been #better #book #cases #come

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beautiful country #began #between #country #end

I keep reading between the lies. ↗

— Goodman Ace

#i #keep #lies #reading

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#between #both #important #important aspect #most

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#better #both #clever #craft #distraction

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. ↗

— Jack Adams

#believe #better #did #equipment #fighting

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#cannot #difference #get #go #goes