"I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters."

-- William Howard Taft

#Peace Quotes #Strong Quotes #Mean Quotes

“A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.”
“Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”
“The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.”

Source : John Polkinghorne (1995). “Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue”, p.75, A&C Black
“The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.”
“Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, youâ€™ll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the ideaâ€™s fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesnâ€™t, itâ€™s still a more interesting path than being nothing.”
“Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.”

Source : "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.
“The fantasy that accompanies and generates the anticipation that precedes the crime is always more stimulating than the immediate aftermath of the crime itself.”
“You are what you eat.....I've eaten so many fat ***** you wouldn't believe”

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