"I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it."

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Tom Wolfe

#Waiting Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Looks Quotes

“It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.”

Source : "Secretary Kerry, Mr. Obama, emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars" by Kathleen Troia McFarland, www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2013.
“Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President [Vladin]Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet achievements that were torpedoed by a nitwit, and one gangster - [Mikhail] Gorbachev and [Boris] Yeltsin.”
“Actors are responsible to the people we play.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.”
“Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.”
“The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.”
“We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.”
“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free”

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