"The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this."

-- Daniel Inouye

#Leadership Quotes #Years Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].”
“What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.”
“Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.”

Source : "Mariane Pearl, 2007 Women of the Year Honoree: What's She Up to Now?" by Mariane Pearl, www.glamour.com. October 27, 2008.
“I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.”
“You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.”
“Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.”
“So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.”
“Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.”

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