#sol

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#doubtless #his #lasting #lasting peace #man

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#centered #christmas #doing #i #iraq

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring. ↗

— John Boehner

#america #inspiring #soldiers #spending #spending time

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. ↗

— John Bolton

#global #many #marketplace #problem #problem solving

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#determination #resolute #truest #truest wisdom

I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars. I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan. ↗

— David Bonior

#any #evidence #gasoline #here #i

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#been #eyes #fire #rank #soldiers

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#social-anxiety #solitude #beauty

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. ↗

— Edward Bond

#human #human affairs #just #never #plays