"We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked."

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Source : Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec. 1962

Dean Rusk

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cold Quotes

“In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist.”

Source : Ari Berk (2011). “Death Watch”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
“People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.”
“Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “The Legend Trilogy Collection”, p.181, Penguin
“Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.”
“I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.”
“One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.”
“Forethought spares afterthought.”
“Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.”

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