The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.Nelson Mandela
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. Benjamin Disraeli
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.Rabindranath Tagore
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. Norman Cousins
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. Julian Barnes
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. Norman Ralph Augustine
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.Stephen Hawking
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.Lord Chesterfield
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. James A.Baldwin
There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great. Marvin Hagler
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. Ernest Hemingway
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. Natalie Clifford Barney
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures. Steven Brust
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. Bernard M. Baruch