William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.William Lewis Safir
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
All four majors are definitely a priority.
Karrie Webb -
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
Randy Johnson -
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson
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War is over if you want it.
Yoko Ono -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson -
We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
Hans Vestberg -
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
Garth Hudson -
I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
Yolanda Adams -
The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
Babyface
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander -
I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn't do that for my films because that's something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.
Ranbir Kapoor -
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
Adam Pally -
In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
Dan Gilbert -
From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
Edgar Meyer -
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Edmund Wilson
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Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
James Comey -
Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
Kaitlin Olson -
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
Gene Luen Yang -
I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
Naomi Campbell -
I feel like some women do get away with doing these sexy shoots and looking like they're being really empowered. For me, I'd feel really uncomfortable in that situation and a bit like I was being taken advantage of.
Alexa Chung -
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
William Lewis Safir