David Ignatius Quotes
Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures.
David Ignatius
Quotes to Explore
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
Zig Ziglar
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra Modi
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
Lara Stone
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The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
Paloma Faith
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
M. Stanton Evans
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
Olin Miller
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Climate change deniers would have us believe that oil, gas, and coal are the only ways to power a modern, industrialized society. They are wrong, and the proof is all around us.
Frances Beinecke
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
Daniel D. Palmer
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It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.
Zac Hanson
Hanson
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Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.
Daniel Gilbert
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
Patrick deWitt
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But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.
P. T. Barnum
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Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flightThe Stars before him from the Field of Night,Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikesThe Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
Omar Khayyam
