#owe

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. ↗

— King Albert II

#betrayed #defend #duty #find #forced

Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past. ↗

— Mohammed Aldouri

#administration #afraid #agenda #anyone #claim

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#idol #snowed #think #time #under

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#i #shower #sing

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#ability #broaden #comes #investigate #life

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#care #consumers #cost #costs #however

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. ↗

— Joe Baca

#fight #holds #ii #learned #monopoly

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. ↗

— Richard Bach

#being #come #given #however #make

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden