"If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control."

-- Anthony Eden

#Iran Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
“During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.”
“Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.”

Source : "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.
“I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.”
“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.”

Source : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl”, p.163, Hachette UK
“Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.”

Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.39, Ballantine Books
“Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.”

Source : Interview with PBS, www.pbs.org.

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