"What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness."

-- Mark Danner

#Lying Quotes #Mean Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.”
“I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”

Source : Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr
“When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.179, Kodansha America
“The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.”

Source : "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 40, 1949 - 1957.
“Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
“I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.”
“While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.”

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