Ahmed Rashid Quotes

Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.

Ahmed Rashid

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Because

• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Seattle

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Regrets

• I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Opportunity

• You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Persons

• I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Today

• I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Work
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

  

  Jess Walter
  • American
  • Culture
  • Opportunity

• Every job I do, I feel like it is an amazing opportunity. I try to throw myself into every role with everything I have.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I wouldn't ask him to go on the trip. We want him to stay behind, work out and get an opportunity to condition himself. It makes no sense for him to go along on the trip and stay in the hotel while we play.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Condition

• I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

  

  Allyson Felix
  • Energy

• Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Help
  • Human Race
  • Being new

• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

  

  Simon Newcomb
  • Problems
  • Flight
  • Cope

• Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.

  

  Ahmed Rashid
  • Opportunity
  • Window
  • Repair