"Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty."

-- Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

#Love Quotes #Grace Quotes #Delicacy Quotes

“I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.”

Source : "Jessica Lynch: One Iraq war veteran's unique perspective" by Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2011.
“Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.”
“Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well”
“I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!”
“There is one grace you cannot counterfeit . . . the grace of perseverance.”
“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.”

Source : "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.
“Early on I was just a kid in a cowboy hat with a bunch of other guys in a room that were putting out some records. Now thank God, in the past 3 or 4 years, when.. it's really hard to burn an image of a face with a song these days. I think that the songs like 'Don't Happen Twice' and 'Young' were songs that helped me do that and I think that 'I Go Back'(did) that even more.”
“The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.”

Source : Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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