"[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated."

-- Jeane Kirkpatrick

#Government Quotes #Influence Quotes #Isolated Quotes

“Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.”
“A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.”
“Give Hamas 90 days to pick a lane, then react.”
“... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...”
“The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.”
“We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
“I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the frivolous and weak things that you cannot help seeing there, and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful and radiant things that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.”
“Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.”

Source : Penny Lernoux (1980). “Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America--the Catholic Church in Conflict with U.S. Policy”

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