Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum famous quotes

This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.
-- Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

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Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.