#rave

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#around #been #enough #experiences #find

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#commercial #during #grave #grave threat #japan

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#earth #find #four #here #nothing

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dream #earth #graves #greatness #heaven

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#career #career choice #choice #circumstances #dying

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#braver #else #five #heroes #just

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#chaos #classical #classical music #craved #happening

I guess I crave stability. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#guess #i #stability

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#because #black #completely #confederate #folks