Javier Solana Quotes

No alternative is open but to take military action.

Javier Solana

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• I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Wedding

• You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Best
  • Feelings

• I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Always
  • Find
  • Strange

• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fun
  • Care
  • Acting

• Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Country
  • Man
  • Politics

• Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Important
  • Independent
  • Judge

• All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • World
  • Great
  • Together

• I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Good
  • Book
  • Friends

• If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.

  

  Don McLean
  • Up

• Happiness isn't for dabblers.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

  

  Arthur Baer

• I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

  

  Dayo Okeniyi
  • School
  • America
  • High

• I'm glad I'm a strong person.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Strong

• I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Night

• From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • History
  • True
  • Reality

• In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Different

• If Saddam Hussein doesn't accept the peaceful path to the disarmament of his weapons of mass destruction set out by the U.N. resolution, then there will have to be military action taken in order to enforce the will of the U.N.,

  

  Jack Straw
  • Action
  • Taken
  • Military

• Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Jews
  • The Lord
  • Catholics

• Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

  

  Blake Russell
  • Learn
  • Distance
  • Marathon

• No alternative is open but to take military action.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Military Action
  • No Alternative