"Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily."

-- Anne Tyler

#Death Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.”
“I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.”

Source : Joseph Warren Stilwell (2003). “The Stilwell papers”
“The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesnâ€™t teach us anything.”
“If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!”
“I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.”
“If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock. A stone has no troubles and lives a simple life. The worst that could happen would be being stepped on, but that won't hurt. Am I right? What about you? What are you thinking? I've already thought it over for you. You'll become the wind. Because the wind is one of the world's cleanest things. Moreover, the wind can blow upon the rock, moving it. As it blows, the rock will eventually turn into sand. This way, the sand and wind can be together. Sand and wind are meant to be together.”
“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
“More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against us, others didn't want to have anything to do with that. So I think that debate resulted in no decision being made for awhile. The problem was they left the al-Qaeda folks in Iran in the hands of their intelligence services and Revolutionary Guard, who didn't really keep an eye on them - and may not have kept an eye on them on purpose.”

Source : "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.

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