"Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back."

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Source : "Chirac 'believes veto would not stop US'" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2003.

Dominique de Villepin

#Would Be Quotes #Shooting Quotes #Veto Quotes

“The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.”
“Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with the rejection slips I have received. Don't ever give up!”
“The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner (2017). “BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume): Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more”, p.1171, e-artnow
“There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.”
“If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.”
“Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.”
“Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.”
“Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers, in groups uniquely adapted to sample the energetic states of the world around us: heat, light, force, and chemical composition. That is all we ever know of it directly; all else is logical inference.”

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