#will

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#belongs #clear #destroy #friendship #fruitless

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ↗

— Edward Albee

#bad #define #fact #good #good writer

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#attack #away #fall #great #people

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. ↗

— Josef Albers

#basic #cases #color #continually #different

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. ↗

— Steve Albini

#before #blindfolded #enlightening #know #more

For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more. ↗

— Steve Albini

#big #big mac #bread #buy #cheese

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democracy #disease #fight #freedom #intimidated

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#book #cheer #cry #laugh #like

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#been #country #good #head #i

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#allies #biological #biological weapons #chemical #deal