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country war thinking
To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared. Edward Said
country lonely spring
Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ...After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more. Du Fu
country teaching normal
It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching. Douglas Hurd
country silence noise
what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country. Douglas Coupland
country people luck
There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want. Donald Trump
country china goods
What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.
country needs mess
This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.
country winning people
I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don't win anymore.
country children opportunity
President Obama has been a disaster for America. He's wrecked our economy, saddled our children with more debt than America managed to rack up in 225 years, and gone around the world apologizing for our country - as if the greatest nation in the world needs to apologize for being a land of opportunity and freedom, which we were before Obama became president.
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book voice space
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. Alberto Manguel
book wanted
I wanted to live among books.
book space darkness
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
book reading sleep
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.
book unpacking activity
Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.
hero thinking hunting
We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need? Chris Abani