"If we are going to have any improvement in U.S.-Russia relations - which I think should be an objective of the United States - we don't want to stay where we are. We'd like for this to be more constructive. Then we're going to have to see progress on Ukraine."

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Source : Source: www.politico.com

Kurt Volker

#Thinking Quotes #Progress Quotes #Improvement Quotes

“But live you get the chance every night to rework it and change it and hone it. But then you get the false, weird oddness of being able to look at it and say: "Well that's weird, because last night they laughed at that and yet they didn't tonight. So what did I do? Nothing was different." You have that strange thing of being able to tell within five minutes what an audience is like. Very quickly an audience gets a personality and you start to think: "What is it about you all; you all hate it, don't you?" Then you come out and have friends in and they say: "It was brilliant!"”
“Having something like an Australia points-based system means we control immigration and bring in the skills that we need.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious assetâ€”timeâ€”to what is most meaningful to you.”

Source : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.156, Harvard Business Press
“Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.”
“Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.”
“Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears His children shed.”
“Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.”

Source : "How Liberalism Destroyed the American Jew" by David Harsanyi, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 10, 2013.

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