"To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome."

-- Donald Rumsfeld

#Support Quotes #Outcomes Quotes #Gains Quotes

“There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.”

Source : Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813). “Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq: The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations ...”, p.202
“I wonder if in 2050 there will be a movie called, 'Dude, Where's My Spaceship'”
“Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.”

Source : Kobo Abe (1970). “Inter Ice Age 4”
“With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.”
“How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.”

Source : Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2007). “The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds”, p.33, Penguin
“How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?”
“I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.”
“I love what I do... When I'm in there I don't want to be nowhere else in the world... I love this game more than anything.”

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