"What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn't have to worry about anything."

-- Yaroslav Trofimov

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Two Quotes

“The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.”

Source : "Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger 'On the Record'". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. October 1-2, 2009.
“But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.”
“What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.”
“The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.”

Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.88, Macmillan
“Jesus wept, but He never complained.”
“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old”
“It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.”

Source : "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". Interview with Jan Egeland, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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