"It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #World Quotes

“I love America. You always hurt the one you love.”
“I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?”

Source : Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.90, Penguin
“I shall last a year, and but little longer: we must think to do good work in that year. Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of OrlÃ©ans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of OrlÃ©ans.”
“In India, love often follows marriage. I know many people who are still very deeply in love with their wives, who they barely knew before they were married. In America there's this idea that "how could someone get married without being deeply in love with each other?" but in a lot of these cases feelings of love and affection actually grow after they've been legally and formally brought together.”
“If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.”
“The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.”
“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
“Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.”

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