#impressed

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#chinese #cold #cold war #despite #during

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#disturbances #everywhere #greatly #impressed #increased

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

#being #bush #clear #decades #envied

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#child #father #him #holding #i

The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me. ↗

— George Peppard

#being #firmly #impressed #me #quality

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#impressed #knowing #like #not knowing #olympian

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#impressed #pigeons #self-absorption #student #synapses

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#hollywood #hype #i #impressed #new

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#been #choice #easy #i #impressed