Bacevich Restoration Quotes

#1. Where, in the dull eyes of doating men, are the laughing light and life of childhood, the gaiety that has known no check, the frankness that has felt no chill, the hope that has never withered, the joys that fade in blossoming?

Charles Dickens

#2. I never have cakes or biscuits. I don't have a sweet tooth at all, and I can't stand chocolates - I find them so sickly. However, I will buy cakes if I'm expecting company.

Kate O'Mara

#3. The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Madeleine Albright

#4. It's your hero complex, isn't it? You should see someone about that."
"Right after I get my head examined.

Brynn Kelly

#5. One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.

Peter Drucker

#6. It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

Noah Levine

#7. I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

Marjane Satrapi

#8. There are no ghettos in Heaven,
no suburbs in Hell,
no gutters in Heaven,
but you'll find repentant gangsters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief.

V.S. Naipaul

#10. I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

Ang Lee

#11. Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

Robyn

#12. Whoever had designed the block of flats had obviously worked to a clear set of priorities. Unfortunately, while cost, size, and low-maintenance had made it to the top of the list, aesthetics, good escape routes, and shelter from gunfire hadn't.

Benedict Jacka