"Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support."

-- John Negroponte

#Country Quotes #Support Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.”
“When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.”
“I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.”
“As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.”
“You have to play your characters, not like them.”
“Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?”
“Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”
“We learned that orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names. They are easier to ignore before you see their faces. It is easier to pretend theyâ€™re not real before you hold them in your arms. But once you do, everything changes.”

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