#we

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ↗

— Alice Walker

#any #common #common way #give #most

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#another #beginning #clear #could #done

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#administration #again #going #here #i

There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#because #bit #doing #example #focusing

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#bittersweet #lie #self-deception #beauty

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#approbation #between #chief #deeds #difference

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#create #edge #new #prepared #risk

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#awe #character #elements #fire #forces

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#conscious #created #divinity #erect #god

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#characteristic #deed #either #given #indian