#ria

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs. ↗

— Tom Petty

#already #always #create #got #i

We still have a lot to talk about," I said. "Talk?" He shook his head, his eyes full of desire. Kiss, he whispered to my thoughts. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#funny #hush-hush #kiss #nora-and-patch #nora-grey

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bikini #care #clothes #deem #i

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#artistic #because #bill #certain #expand

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#accommodations #acquisition #always #assimilation #becomes

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#contact #external #external world #immediate #in other words

God invented concubinage, satan marriage. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#invented #marriage #satan

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#euphemism #marriage #people #sleeping #tantamount

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#inward #manifested #may #outward #success