#pete

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption. ↗

— Anthony Zinni

#corruption #i #incompetence #iraq #iraq war

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#courtroom #degree #law #law degree #lot

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#been #before #big #championship #compete

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#career #competed #empty #i #lot

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#compared #competed #does #doom #had

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#actually #am #being #character #color

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… ↗

— 2 Peter 2 18

#food-for-thought #ible #peter #speaking #think-before-you-speak

Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendship, romance, all of it, but he hadn't - not at all. Until he'd held Anna in his arms, until he'd let her see into his soul, until he'd heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he'd known nothing. And now, sometimes, when it was just the two of them, when he smelt her hair, caught her eye, he felt as though he knew all there was to know about everything, as though they knew the secret of life. A secret far more powerful than Longevity, far more long-lasting. ↗

— Gemma Malley

#peter-pincent #surplus-anna #the-resistance #friendship

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#strategy #art

He shifted his attention back to me and leaned in closer. “I told you to behave. I don’t want to have to arrest you ever again.” “Um . . . okay.” I felt him slide something under my hand. He leaned in even closer, his mouth by my ear, and whispered, “Although I wouldn’t mind handcuffing you.” Oh. My. God. ↗

— Robyn Peterman

#humorous #robyn-peterman #romance #romance-funny #sexy