#ops

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #decided #decision #got #involved

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#brain #conscious #consciousness #death #fragile

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#aspire #consider #fields #most #our

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#business #give #i #job #people

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#i #instruments #into #kids #little

Character develops itself in the stream of life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#develops #itself #life #stream

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ball #feet #happiness #our #push

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#current #develops #full #human #human life

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. ↗

— William Golding

#does #fall #get #got #journey

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#enough #express #free #given #gratitude