#rin

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#chinese #cold #cold war #despite #during

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghanistan #america #congressman #democratically #divide

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ↗

— Mitchell Kapor

#drink #fire #getting #hydrant #information

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#basic #basic principle #being #dole #generate

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#alcohol #always #booze #designated #designated driver

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive! ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#drink #drive #i #learn #mistakes

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. ↗

— Colin Firth

#bridget #bridget jones #enormously #flattering #jones

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know? ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#problem #suffering #why

In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn. 'Jack,' my grandmother announced, 'I am thinking of coming to stay.' My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his hesitation. 'I would like to make myself available to you and the children. I've been knocking around in this mausoleum long enough.' 'Lynn, we're just beginning to start over again,' he stammered. Still, he couldn't depend on Nate's mother to watch Buckley forever. Four months after my mother left, her temporary absence was beginning to take on the feel of permanence. My grandmother insisted. I watched her resist the remaining slug of vodka in her glass. 'I will contain my drinking until'- she thought hard here- 'after five o'clock, and,' she said,' what the hell, I'll stop altogether if you should find it necessary.' 'Do you know what you're saying?' My grandmother felt a clarity from her phone hand down to her pump-encased feet. 'Yes, I do. I think' It was only after he got off the phone that he let himself wonder, Where will we PUT her? It was obvious to everyone. ~pgs 213-214; Grandma Lynn and Jack; ↗

— Alice Sebold

#family #sacrifices #family

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#i #look #our #our people #people