#ric

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#feeling #glorious #pride #tricky

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally. ↗

— Susan Rice

#critically #i #i think #internationally #judged

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa. ↗

— Susan Rice

#example #for example #foreign #increasingly #investor

Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security. ↗

— Susan Rice

#any #come #deal #democracy #expectation

Further north, I met a Siberian hermit who lived in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. His life’s passion was wrestling black bears ... in the nude (him not the bears). He did not know why he did it. All the hermit knew was that if he stopped wrestling bears, he would die. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms. ↗

— Barney Frank

#democracies #elections #england #israel #japan

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#because #fire #flashing #flashing lights #i

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are. ↗

— Frank Rich

#after #arguing #cares #culture #know

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#because #great #iraq #paid #prices

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#anyone #career #course #else #having