#terri

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. ↗

— Neil Peart

#condition #even #future #get #life

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#been #cambodia #camps #chinese #millions

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#doing #exploration #i #kind #less

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#always #been #bring #close #fortunate

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#advice #also #appalled #give #holidays

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me. ↗

— Anna Nicole Smith

#i #me #terrible #things #very

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story. ↗

— Kate Smith

#done #kind #lyrics #music #nothing

I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.” “Or kill him,” I said. “That too. What is life without risk?” “Long?” Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made me—and Zayvion, much to my surprise—smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy you’d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh. ↗

— Devon Monk

#devon-monk #terric #zay #funny

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ... ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#balance #collecting #lies #more-terrible #old-woman