#rely

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#complex #consequences #fact #foreign #foreign policy

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#chord #cream #enough #filled #giraffe

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#bottom #different #different view #entirely #frog

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#barry #because #flamboyant #gets #interviews

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#guilt #i #life #pleasant #rarely

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. ↗

— Andre Gide

#get #go #him #his #idea

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe. ↗