Recouped Synonym Quotes & Sayings

An alliance with France was enlisted in the war for independence from Britain, then loosened in the aftermath, as France undertook revolution and embarked on a European crusade in which the United States had no direct interest. When President Washington, in his 1796 Farewell Address - delivered in the midst of the French revolutionary wars - counseled that the United States "steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world" and instead "safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies," he was issuing not so much a moral pronouncement as a canny judgment about how to exploit America's comparative advantage: the United States, a fledgling power safe behind oceans, did not have the need or the resources to embroil itself in continental controversies over the balance of power. — Henry Kissinger

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact. — Billy Graham

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history. — Anne Michaels

Sometimes when we say things, is like putting the head inside of a tiger's mouth and wating for it not to be closed. — Kimberly Loskov

The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence. — David Wroblewski

The feeble clavichord did not carry far; the harpsichord was only a little stronger; but Cristofori in Italy was working at these defects; he built a machine he called clavicembalo piano e forte - a keyboard instrument to play "soft and loud." Contrary to all experience, we now call it simply "a soft. — Jacques Barzun

You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating. — Aza Raskin