#on

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#civil #dead #ghost #i #i am

We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if you've read the books, it's the standoff with lots of vampires in play. There's like 70 people going through the works at once. It's a little maddening, but fun. We shot pretty much the ending of the two movies the other day. ↗

— Peter Facinelli

#been #books #day #ending #fun

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#afghanistan #any #been #commitment #community

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#alike #fundamental #fundamental principle #principle #situations

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#clear #commitment #enable #firm #ideas

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#around #been #empathy #foreigners #natural

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#because #commonly #conflicts #connections #expression

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#experience #go #place #prescriptions #you

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#dealing #easily #give #going #interests

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#bad #denigrate #emotionally #enjoy #fill