Franse Liefde Quotes & Sayings

In essence, terrorism is a show. Terrorists stage a terrifying spectacle of violence that captures our imagination and makes us feel as if we are sliding back into medieval chaos. Consequently states often feel obliged to react to the theatre of terrorism with a show of security, orchestrating immense displays of force, such as the persecution of entire populations or the invasion of foreign countries. In most cases, this overreaction to terrorism poses a far greater threat to our security than the terrorists themselves. Terrorists — Yuval Noah Harari

In real life, according to McNamara, the leader first must discover the problem. He or she must figure out what problem needs to be solved before beginning to make decisions. McNamara explained that identifying the true problem facing an organization often proved to be the most difficult challenge that leaders face. In many instances leaders do not spot a threat until far too late. At times, leaders set out to solve the wrong problem. — Michael A. Roberto

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know. — Edgar A. Guest

You are - truly your father's son, Harry. . . . — J.K. Rowling

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence. — Claire Denis

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities. — Anna Deavere Smith

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen. — Hilary Mantel

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks. — Ally Carter

According to the Greek philosophers, that we become truly human by devoting time to self-development-to learning, to the arts, to political activity. In fact the Greek term for leisure, scholea, is the root from which our word "school" comes from, since the idea was that the best use for leisure was to study. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There are no techniques in politics. — Michael Ignatieff

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth. — James Van Der Beek

Hope is the mother of faith. — Walter Savage Landor

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name. — Laurell K. Hamilton

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words. — Elizabeth Gaskell