Interveners Quotes

#1. History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.

Paddy Ashdown

#2. Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.

Manly P. Hall

#3. Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

W.C. Fields

#4. My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.

Khaled Hosseini

#5. The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

Michael Ondaatje

#7. We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

Lucy Stone

#8. Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.

James Heckman

#9. I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Dorothy Parker

#10. Ava knew the incidental betrayals of life.

Nicki Salcedo