"...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths."

-- Mark Helprin

#Strength Quotes #Real Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.”
“We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what was actually said to see if that indeed was in fact Saddam Hussein,”

Source : "Saddam goes on TV to rally troops", www.cnn.com. March 24, 2003.
“If I heard a girl crying help I would go to save her; But you hardly ever hear those words. Dear children, you must try to say Something when you are in need. Don't confuse hunger with greed; And don't wait until you are dead.”

Source : Ruth Stone (1991). “Second-hand Coat: Poems New and Selected”
“I will do everything I can to bring the number one to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it.”
“Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.”
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.”

Source : Constitutional Convention, May 31, 1787.
“We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.”
“Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.”

Source : Robert Baer (2008). “The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower”, p.27, Broadway Books

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