"The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion."

-- William Safire

#Drama Quotes #Lexicon Quotes #Language Quotes

“Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.”
“There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.”
“It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.
“Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.”
“Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.”
“If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.”

Source : "Training Tips for the No-Offseason Athlete". Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.
“There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.”
“The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.”

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