"The Arab leadership, after so many years of Obama, they're positively giddy about the arrival of Donald Trump. And when they are giddy, like any other leaders, they might over step. And the danger, of course, is initiating a confrontation with Iran that the U.S. really doesn't want to be involved with at any given moment. They have enough to worry about on the North Korea file."

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Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com

Jeffrey Goldberg

#Worry Quotes #Leader Quotes #Moments Quotes

“This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.”
“I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.”
“Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.”
“My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you're going to let a boy keep you from singing out loud? Sing, sister! Sing! So I do, and my angel-boy turns his head.”
“When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.”
“If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1886). “Lectures and Essays, by the Late William Kingdon Clifford”
“Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.”
“I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.”

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