#lit

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#before #bosnia #closing #could #create

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#grace #politics #putting #state #yourself

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#always #i #know #last #literally

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#anything #ashley #do the right thing #doing #doing the right thing

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#control #form #ice #into #molecules

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#arab countries #countries #israel #lebanon #match

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. ↗

— Nancy Astor

#cheek #i #i am #kind #me

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it. ↗

— John Astin

#chant #exercises #get #i #into

After each war there is a little less democracy to save. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#democracy #each #less #little #save

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#also #apart #be careful #becomes #being