"If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

#Snakes Quotes #Wish Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.”
“He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.”
“I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.”
“Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?”

Source : Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Democracy without morality is impossible.”

Source : "From Contagion To Outbreak: The Death Of Leadership" by Alicia Bassuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2016.
“I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.”
“My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.”
“It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.”

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