"I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness."

-- Condoleezza Rice

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Messages Quotes

“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”
“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.”

Source : "Grappling with the hardest questions on assisted dying". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. February 25, 2016.
“As much as I do love real-life stories they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt. . . . For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.”
“Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.”
“Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.”
“Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.”
“Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61”
“You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?”

You may also like:

Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Colin Powell
Former United States Secretary of State
Dick Cheney
Former Vice President of the United States
Donald Rumsfeld
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
Hillary Clinton
Former United States Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright
Former United States Secretary of State
Rob Kardashian
Television Personality
Susan Rice
United States Ambassador to the United Nations