"I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue....It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening."

Source : "Farewell To All That: An Oral History Of The Bush White House" by Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, www.vanityfair.com. February 2009.

Lee Hsien Loong

#Heart Quotes #Iraq Quotes #America Quotes

“Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.”
“It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
“Change is as good as a rest. It keeps me fresh.”
“With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.”

Source : Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.93, W. W. Norton & Company
“Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is good, their feelings are low, cold, and reluctant. Or even when their emotions are quite high, passionate, and willing, they find themselves unable to serve the Lord because now the body reacts lazily. The disciples found themselves in precisely that situation in the Garden of Gethsemane: "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"”
“What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press
“It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.”
“What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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