#ira

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#around #attack #country #detect #duty

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#coalition #exactly #fact #free #freed

It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #science #change

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#doing #inspiration #know #you

This isn’t about validation, this is about having someone’s hand to hold when I’m walking through the creepy forest. I really thought of that tonight. Life is sometimes one great big creepy forest, and as much as I love you, we are both getting to the age where each other just isn’t enough. ↗

— Davee Jones

#love #romance #age

A novel is not an allegory...it is a sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel; you inhale the experience. So start breathing. I just want you to remember this. That is all; class dismissed. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#experience

I started off wanting to change the world, now I'm just hoping the world doesn't change me. ↗

— Ray Mileur

#ray-mileur #change

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#inspirational #writing #age

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#talents #age

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#both #bring #deficits #home #iraq