Never Appease Quotes

#1. You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.

Jonathan Powell

#2. As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

Wendy McElroy

#3. There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

William Bolcom

#4. I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

John Major

#5. How do humans treat one another under the stress of a changing world? Do we fight and compete? Or, do we cooperate and work together as a family in this world to get through these changes? This is the question we are asking ourselves today.

Gregg Braden

#6. What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.

Courtney Milan

#7. I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

Allen Tate

#8. They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

Johnny Vegas

#9. That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!

Terry Pratchett

#10. Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Daniel Tammet

#11. My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.

Paul Kagame

#12. If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

Kurt Cobain

#13. I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Patti Smith

#14. If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

Jennifer Grey

#15. That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

James Patterson

#16. There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

F. Murray Abraham

#17. People hide the truth to protect those they love!

Craig Mercier