"National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction."

-- Jacques Chirac

#Defense Quotes #Nuclear Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.”
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”
“Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”
“When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.”
“If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”
“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”
“Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.”

Source : "Double vision". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.
“Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.”

Source : Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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