Quotes About Embassies

#1. Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

Tariq Ramadan

#2. At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

Daniel Fried

#3. I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

Kim Young-sam

#4. Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.

Ronald Kessler

#5. Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#6. Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?

Sam Harris

#7. Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.

Ezra Levant

#8. [Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach ... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

Frank Sinatra

#9. The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

Benazir Bhutto

#10. New EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together.

Pierre Vimont

#11. Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.

Corrado Balducci

#12. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

Wafa Sultan

#13. Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.'

Shashi Tharoor

#14. I like to try anything ... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

Jerry Seinfeld

#15. Only loyal love knows the sacred path to a faithful heart

Munia Khan

#16. I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.

Lena Dunham

#17. Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

John Piper

#18. Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.

Suzy Kassem

#19. America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

D.H. Lawrence

#20. I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt. But I do watch awards shows to critique the clothes while I sit around eating chips in my sweat pants and in hopes of seeing some hilarious accidental nudity.

Eliza Coupe

#21. Three taps means "Are you alive?" Two means "Yes," one "No.

Nicole Krauss

#22. Her headache wouldn't budge no matter how she ODed on caffeine, but never call her a quitter.

Thea Harrison

#23. The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

George Whitefield

#24. Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

Spencer W. Kimball