"Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government."

-- Peter DeFazio

#Country Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Home Quotes

“You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage..”
“If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.”
“Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter than a fisherman. An angler must take the puzzle of the day's conditions, and matching those conditions and his knowledge of the fish come up with a good catch. He competes with a concept, not with a fish's brain.”
“When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)”
“I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.”
“Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.”
“I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.”
“Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.190, Penguin

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