"We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership."

-- Theodore C. Sorensen

#Leadership Quotes #Iran Quotes #Korea Quotes

“Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.”
“A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.”
“rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Four Scarpetta Novels”, p.415, Penguin
“Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.”
“The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.”
“I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.”
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”

Source : "NBC White Paper (The Decision to Drop the Bomb)". Documentary, January 5, 1965.

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