Vilasini Rekhala Quotes & Sayings

By the time Bill Clinton left office in 2001, an Operation Other Than War, as Pentagon forces called them, could go on indefinitely, sort of on autopilot - without real political costs or consequences, or much civilian notice. We'd gotten used to it.
By 2001, the ability of a president to start and wage military operations without (or even in spite of) Congress was established precedent. — Rachel Maddow

Why is it so loud when you cry from grief? Because it must be loud enough for the missing one to hear, though it never can be. Loud enough to scale the sky and the backs of angels, or to fall through the earth to where they rest. And so it is sometimes when I sing that the notes come from me as if I believed I could reach them where they rest, they sure of a reunion I still cannot imagine or believe in except, sometimes, in song. — Alexander Chee

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tex glared at the next customer, the unfortunate who'd opened his mouth. She's a badass motherfuckeress. She'd kick your ass soon as look at you. You've clapped your eyes on The Law. Count yourself lucky, sucker. Now what'll it fuckin' be? — Kristen Ashley

The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. — Hosokawa Tadaoki

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. — Ann Patchett

I'm a lion in a strange land. — Criss Jami

Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever. — Thomas Friedman

The healing of the land is dependant on, and incomplete without, the healing of the people, and vice versa. — Cara Krmpotich