#vin

I don't like having my space invaded. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i #invaded #like #space

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#assume #becomes #course #danger #having

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#back #economy #feet #get #having

I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#bbc #corporation #development #enjoyed #fascinating

Caress the detail, the divine detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#detail #divine

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#creative #creative person #even #important #involving

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#confer #convinced #exist #greatest #honors