"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."

-- Demosthenes

#Safety Quotes #Alliances Quotes #Safe Quotes

“Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.”

Source : "Roberta Smith & Jerry Saltz". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2013.
“I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.”

Source : "What Was Lucy Hale Like When She Was 17?". www.seventeen.com. January 22, 2013.
“I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)”
“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”
“John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.”
“I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.”
“Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.125, Octagon Press Ltd
“Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.”

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