"Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up."

-- Daniel Pipes

#Giving Up Quotes #War Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.”
“Gorsuch, who is a U.S. Supreme Court nominee in the United States, said the real test of law is when a government can lose in its own courts and still respect the order. And I think Canadian need to ask is why would Canada, if it's doing everything right, why wouldn't you want to be watched? If they are contesting the fact that their own courts don't have jurisdiction over the government's human rights violations, then our next step is to go to federal court and find the federal government that can come to court and we will do that.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.”

Source : Peter Ackroyd (1996). “First Light”, p.37, Grove Press
“We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. We need each other in that way.”
“Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.”
“I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.”
“My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.”

Source : "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.
“It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.”

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