#rin

Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#assumed #believe #between #build #deteriorated

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#i #like #prince #secrets #von

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#focus #just #out #play #point

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#lobby #manufacturing #networks #nobody #returns

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#acting #bonus #get #i #learn

What brings people down is the same thing over and over. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#down #over #people #same #thing

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book