Vanezios Quotes & Sayings

The military-strategic dimensions of world order were, in American thinking, inseparable from the economic dimensions. US planners viewed the establishment of a freer and more open international economic system as equally indispensable to the new order they were determined to construct from the ashes of history's most horrific conflict. Experience had instructed them, Secretary of State Cordell Hull recalled, that free trade stood as an essential prerequisite for peace. The autarky, closed trading blocs, and nationalistic barriers to foreign investment and currency convertibility that had characterized the depression decade just encouraged interstate rivalry and conflict. A — Robert J. McMahon

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. — Howard Hodgkin

You started my training by buying me a beer. For breakfast. Germans are awesome. — Andy Weir

I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use. — Laurie Graham

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too. — Walter Mosley