#pan

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#american #between #break #could #declaration

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#based #belief #between #china #designed

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#another #aware #became #broke #communication

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project. ↗

— Randy Travis

#artist #continue #each #every #evolve

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#enjoyable #existential #novel #panic #process

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#amend #believe #big #big enough #enough

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals. ↗

— Donald Trump

#bureaucracy #company #country #done #getting

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete. ↗

— Donald Trump

#almost #because #china #companies #compete

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#brought #card #catalog #companion #house