"The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity."

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Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

Hugh Shelton

#Special Quotes #Important Quotes #Quality Quotes

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”
“Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
“There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.”
“The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.”

Source : "Tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.
“All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.”

Source : Spalding Gray (2011). “The Journals of Spalding Gray”, p.108, Vintage
“Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.”
“And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .”
“It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.”

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