#cap

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#capability #much #nothing #over #over it

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. ↗

— Evita Peron

#aid #books #capitalistic #count #i

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources. ↗

— David Petraeus

#bad #bad guy #become #capture #continued

This is actually true of the overall fight against al-Qaeda and trans-national extremists, that as you put pressure on them in one location, they'll seek safe haven sanctuaries in other areas. So you do have to continue to pursue them. But they have less capability. ↗

— David Petraeus

#against #al-qaeda #areas #capability #continue

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#backgrounds #broader #different #different ages #diversity

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#earth #escaping #i #longer #singing

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#available #canada #capital #develop #huge

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#captain #england #excited #given #i

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#been #both #captain #communications #direct