"People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular."

-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#Smart Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.”
“It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.”
“What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies.”
“What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.”

Source : Nancy Kress (2004). “Dynamic Characters”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books
“I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.”
“I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.”
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”
“For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.150, Harper Collins

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