"We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home."

-- Thomas Friedman

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Iraq Quotes

“The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.”
“It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.”
“Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.”

Source : Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.58, University of Chicago Press
“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?”

Source : The New York Times, December 10, 1916.
“I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.”

Source : "'There's more to life than football': Jermain Defoe bares his soul on matters of life, death and the beautiful game" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2012.
“Do something. Get results. Decide if it's worth repeating.”
“There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”

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