"There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Way Quotes #Danger Quotes #Humans Quotes

“If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.”
“I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2010). “Out of My Mind”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.”
“It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.”
“We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.”

Source : "Re-enacting Waterloo". www.economist.com. June 16, 2005.
“The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.”
“The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject. ...”
“Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.47, Vintage

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