Interventionism Vs Isolationism Quotes & Sayings

Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom. — Roger Cohen

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain. — St. Vincent

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out. — Niall Ferguson

Give no time to finding fault of criticism. — Marvin J. Ashton

And even if you don't have material possessions, pretending like you have your shit together is the best way to have your shit together until you actually do. — The Betches

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain. — Douglas Alexander

The saddest thing is when the toilet from an abandoned space station falls back to earth, lands upside-down on a child who was playing alone in the backyard, and smooshes them into the shape of half a hard-boiled egg.
... And when they lift the toilet off of the child, two lips at the top of the bloody mound say, on their dying breath, I love you, mommy. — Chris Onstad

I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized. — Rachel Weisz

No matter how you see things in this world know that God loves you, he will test you through the challenges you are faced with — Shellie Palmer

8. It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you - inside or out. — Marcus Aurelius

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. — Thomas A. Edison

Still wearin' Chucks and singin' out of tune I see. — Madeline Sheehan

A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too. — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

How we spend Christmas is of greater significance than how much we spend for it. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports. — Mike Fitzpatrick

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat. — James Ellroy

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible. — Annie Fellows Johnston