Background Url Without Quotes & Sayings

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. — Vladimir Putin

Hmmm!" directed to Fai. "Is there such
thing as an answer, Fai?" he asked, though by his tone, Wolfdon could tell he knew the answer to that, if it were possible.
"I would not know, Godric," Fai replied, a bit more solemn than Godric and Cheng. "For knowing thus, the question would be answered, but without, there is neither subjectivity nor objectivity, just truth from above lisped through our
uncouth tongues. Truth, there is. Answers, I cannot say. — Mary-Jean Harris

The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game. — Wim Crouwel

You live that long, things start happening to you. You get too impressed with yourself. Ends up, you think you're God. Suddenly the little people, thirty, maybe forty years old, well, they don't really matter anymore. You've seen whole societies rise and fall, and you start to feel you're standing outside it all, and none of it really matters to you. And maybe you'll start snuffing those little people, just like picking daisies, if they get under your feet. — Richard K. Morgan

Quiet in the way that a battlefield is sometimes quiet, — Anonymous

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator. — Brian Herbert

waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory. — Curtis Armstrong

Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before. — Robert Lyndon

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. — Noel Coward

Had a real nice email from somebody who bought my book and said it took a lot of the "gringa" fear away from her before she and her husband go to Ecuador for various months. They are there now and I hope they love it. — Ursula B. Borck

Oh, never mind that, Emma," said Mrs. Wiggins. "Alice, what'll we do with this boy? You're the one that was hit. You're the one to decide on his punishment. — Walter R. Brooks