Bratislava Christmas Quotes & Sayings

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) sees U.S. battle networks - "which rely heavily on satellites and the Internet to identify targets, coordinate attacks, guide 'smart bombs' and more" - as its "Achilles' heel. — Robert D. Kaplan

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason — Francis Bacon

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' — Matthew Stewart

Theodore Roethke said it best: I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.10 In — Carolyn Baker

Creativity is a massive and the sharpest voice that reaches every corner of the globe. — Euginia Herlihy

It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to. — Dave Grohl

while courage is not in itself one of the primary virtues, it is the quality that makes the exercise of the virtues possible. — Christopher Hitchens

I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet. — Lewis Black

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things. — Sophie Swetchine

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Look, I'd sat through just as many Hollywood movies as the next person. I'd seen Sleepless in Seattle, Titanic, Twilight, whatever. I knew the myth. But i didn't believe it. I knew it was made up, I knew none of it was even close to reality. — Juniper Bell

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare