Quotes About Warsaw Pact

#1. I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#2. So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

Lord Robertson

#3. Hungary shares more than it may like to admit with its former Warsaw Pact allies Romania and Bulgaria. Fischer explained that despite its economic progress, Hungary still cannot easily escape its past:

Robert D. Kaplan

#4. I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

Jeremy Corbyn

#5. It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#6. The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

Adam Michnik

#7. For heaven's sakes, every parent in America is checking social media and every employer is as well, but our government can't do it.

Carly Fiorina

#8. My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

Kristin Hersh

#9. The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'

Stephen Rodrick

#10. The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Glen Cook

#11. Follow your footprints long enough and they will turn into those of a beast.

Philipp Meyer

#12. Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

Ewan McGregor

#13. Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.

Douglas Coupland

#14. I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

Patti Smith

#15. I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

Walt Whitman

#16. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

#17. Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

Jillian Michaels

#18. I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

Gene Luen Yang

#19. Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought ...

Eckhart Tolle