"There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States."

-- Walter Russell Mead

#Successful Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.”
“She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light...”
“I prefer sayings over jokes.”
“A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2014). “Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company
“I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very ... high maintenance.”
“I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I've been shafted.”
“And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds â€” large, light, and fugitive...”
“I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.”

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