#erin

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#africa #best #dangerous #had #house

You can't move mountains by whispering at them. ↗

— Pink

#move #them #whispering #you

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? ↗

— David Plouffe

#american people #construction #continue #create #economy

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #compete #creative #developed #economy

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section. ↗

— Mike Quade

#cheering #get #going #i #i always

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#american #american movies #i #i think #kid

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#soul #stop #suffering #teaches #unless

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#am #beginning #being #fifty #formulated