"As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel."

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Source : Ben Bova (2006). “Powersat”, p.141, Macmillan

Ben Bova

#Oil Quotes #Israel Quotes #Long Quotes

“I’m getting maximum enjoyment out of life and I’ll never stop.”

Source : "One Life to Live: McConkey Film Premieres at Squaw Valley" by Tim Sohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.
“There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.”
“Youâ€™ll get over itâ€¦â€ Itâ€™s the clichÃ©s that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You donâ€™t get over it because â€˜itâ€ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
“Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.”
“Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?”

Source : Sena Jeter Naslund (2009). “Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel”, p.54, Harper Collins
“I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.”
“I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.”
“Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.”

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