Undersecretary Or Under Secretary Quotes & Sayings

The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining. — Roger Altman

You don't find happiness, you make happiness. — David Leonhardt

When the smell of her perfume, something that reminded him of faint spicy blossoms and spring, wasn't wreathed in a cloud around him.
Maybe it was magic. Was she one of the creatures from the many Scottish tales his nurse had told him as a child? — Karen Ranney

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter. — Audre Lorde

We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve. — S. Truett Cathy

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency. — Victoria Woodhull

You're crying?"
"I'm a woman of the desert," she said, averting her face. "But above all, I'm a woman. — Paulo Coelho

Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty of the form is that one must create an entire world in five to 30 pages, as opposed to 300. There is very little room for fat - you must be economical. And you must begin as close to the end as you possibly can. — ZZ Packer

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control. — Dick Durbin

Let me welcome you to my first country, my Third World. — Miguel Syjuco

Shane padded back to the couch and flopped, sucking on his own can of soda. Eve shot him an exasperated look. "Yeah, man, thanks for bringing me one, too." The raccoon eye make-up exaggerated her eye roll. "Dork."
"Didn't know if you wanted zombie dirt sprinkled on it or anything. If you're eating this week. — Rachel Caine

Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid. — Andy Grove

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed. — Ben Jonson

key. 'Duggan, Grant!' she yelled. 'Chisel, hammer, now!' Howard grabbed the tools from the guards. He set the chisel against the lock and cracked it open with a single strike. Lucy flung open the freezer lid. The smell hit them like a physical blow. Trying not to retch, Lucy swung her torch beam inside. A girl was lying on her side. She was naked. She wore a handcuff on her left wrist which didn't appear to be secured to anything. — C.J. Carver

Surely we all dealt with and reconciled ourselves to a life many of whose features were out of our control. It was part of living in a world full of other people with other interests. — David Foster Wallace