#ld

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#cia #covert #difficult #even #extraordinarily

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie. ↗

— LeBron James

#great opportunity #i #involved #itself #love

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#axis #brushed #clings #entirely #ever

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#burst #comes #dance #day #every

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#honest man #less #make #man #may

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#children #get #how #important #important thing

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#brute force #faith #force #kings #only

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ↗