"American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy."

-- Colin S. Gray

#America Quotes #Support Quotes #Nuclear Quotes

“It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.”

Source : Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.”
“There is no sinner like a young saint.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2014). “Behn Five Plays”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.”

Source : Myles Horton (2003). “The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change”, p.118, Univ. of Tennessee Press
“Islam is a dangerous religion.”
“Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.”

Source : John Mason Brown (1950). “Still seeing things”
“to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance”

Source : J Krishnamurti, Mabel Collins, H P Blavatsky (2014). “Inspirations from Ancient Wisdom: At the Feet of the Master, Light on the Path, the Voice of the Silence”, p.52, Quest Books
“The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.”

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