#war

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her. ↗

— Joanne Woodward

#children #daughter #her #i #learning

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#bit #first #i #i do #into

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#conflict #ideas #intelligence #progress #war

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#greatness #many #presidents #success #war

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#like #little #looking #necessary #rest

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#especially #fear #government #government workers #included

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards. ↗

— Amy Adams

#awards #beyond #define #family #friends

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#best #dad #even #forward #going

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#before #bombed #bombing #cities #civil