"The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy."

-- Richard N. Haass

#Hands Quotes #Upper Hand Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.”
“But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.”
“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.”
“Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.”
“... military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ...”

Source : Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”
“The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.”
“Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.”
“A lot of people think, "Oh I'm going to eat whatever I want and then go to the gym." And I've definitely been one of those people and it just doesn't give me the results that I need to have the physique of a ballerina.”

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