There was a sense that there was nothing to learn from Somalia or Haiti or Bosnia.

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It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic ...
STAN GOFF When we left Bosnia and went to Germany, we could only stay there four years, or we had to go back t...
IGOR IVELJIC

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot...
LEONARD COHEN

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER

There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromis...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incompreh...
JAN EGELAND

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosni...
DAVID PETRAEUS There was a loose ball, and he shot it from 3 or 4 feet beyond the line, like it was nothing.
CHARLIE BELL There was nothing artificial about him or pretentious.
JOE CHILLURA

There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not nee...
CHARLES DE LINT Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under h...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there w...
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
YODA Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...
ANNE LAMOTT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER There was no visible sign of trauma or struggle. There is nothing that would indicate foul play righ...
CAPT. VIC NEAL There was no forewarning. There was no discussion or any indication that there was a problem.
JOAN GREENE You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL People are interested in Haiti in a negative sense, like when we have to stop drugs from flowing thr...
CARINE ROENEN There is simply nothing of comparable value to life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones an...
JEANETTE WINTERSON It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine ...
AARON LAZAR I don't think this is ethnic cleansing in the sense it was in Bosnia.
JIRI DIENSTBIER There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to f...
LAUREN GILLEY To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company tha...
BARRY STERNLICHT I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or no...
MICKEY ROURKE Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.
CAROLYN HUNTER All the goals were from 4 or 5 feet in front of me. There was nothing that beat me from that far out...
ROBERTO LUONGO There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There was a sense of urgency from the governor's side, but not a sense of pressure.
WALTER TIMPONE Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
SHELBY FOOTE You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
J.D. SALINGER When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian ...
SUSAN ORLEAN Outside of maybe Deacon Jones, there was no one more dominant.
HARRY CARSON It was not child pornography. From what I understand it was a site where teen girls would post pictu...
DIANA PARISI Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare...
PADDY ASHDOWN There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers ...
CHARLIE PIERCE This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE It was a fluke deal. It was fixed. No sense in looking over your shoulder. Nothing but broken bones ...
JOEY HARRINGTON There is some notion ... that peace was bought. There is nothing that is further from the truth.
GARY DELLAVERSON There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audienc...
HAL HOLBROOK It's always been our view that there was poor record-keeping and/or someone was stealing wine from M...
DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT It was like everything stopped. It was like there was nothing going on around me. I could hear crick...
JENNY PFEIFFER There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
BERNARD WILLIAMS There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
BERN WILLIAMS Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
MARIANA FULGER If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
DR. SUESS He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ...
JERZY KOSINKSI Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT We have them just where they want us.
JAMES T. KIRK Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof,...
KURT VONNEGUT I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC There was nothing that was done.
BARBARA KELLY Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was c...
AL WALSER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD there was no tissue-like debris observed [or] collected anywhere in that truck, was there?
MARK GERAGOS There was nothing they were seeking that was impossible to achieve. I've been a proponent of settlem...
ION SANCHO The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the...
TERENCE MCKENNA The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If NATO troops stayed on, this would only give us a sense of false security ... and create another B...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI I wanted so badly to sit and comfort her, but I knew there was nothing I could do or say that would ...
BRITTANY KNOX Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beg...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administr...
NOAH FELDMAN We just lost our intensity. There was no sense of urgency out there the last seven or eight minutes....
MEGAN DUFFY There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aiml...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write...
GERTRUDE STEIN What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, wr...
GERTRUDE STEIN I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor b...
J. D. VANCE (Blair) was saying that one way or another inaction was not a possibility -- there has to be action ...
ROBIN OAKLEY “Nothing is really yours, because there is nothing you could ever lose. In order to lose something...
RYAN MARKS There was no reasonable basis to suspect that this child was abused or neglected.
TONY SPENCER I remember some things about living in Bosnia. Every day there were shootings and bombs going off. I...
IGOR IVELJIC I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become ...
JOSEPH HAYDN It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was noth...
BILL BRYSON How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic mom...
LARENZ TATE I think there is a sense that, sooner or later, this will happen.
DR. MARK HORTON I was having fun out there today. Me and my boy Eddie (Jones) where just having fun. Nobody really s...
AL WOODS We had a case confirmed yesterday which reaffirms there has been regular exposure of Somalia to the ...
BRUCE AYLWARD It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacek...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON People say about Lubbock that everybody that comes out of there is either a musician or a dope deale...
BOB LIVINGSTON I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You l...
CHARLIE TROTTER There was something in the waste stream that wasn't supposed to be there or was there without the kn...
DAN GILBERT It was something that made sense to me when I was thinking about whether or not Tommy should compete...
DAN STEELE For five years or six years, almost nothing happened in Europe, there was a de facto moratorium wher...
HUGH GRANT If there was one thing that I took away, it was paying attention to every single solitary detail, no...
AHMED BEST I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good ab...
HERB ALPERT Leah: "That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was...
STEPHENIE MEYER It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortify...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered...
MAAJID NAWAZ There were no other findings to show that coaching or not coaching was advantageous or harmful.
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SETH GODIN People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separa...
SETH GODIN The best way to be missed when you're gone,
Is to stand for something when you're here
SETH GODIN You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art...
SETH GODIN Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help...
SETH GODIN Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
SETH GODIN If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit...
SETH SHOSTAK The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one ...
SETH SHOSTAK The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.

The lizard brain only wants to eat ...
SETH GODIN Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as H...
SETH SHOSTAK Thanks to the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and invoking a bunch of Newtonian phys...
SETH SHOSTAK The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions ...
SETH SHOSTAK I feel like I've been very underrated and very kind of disrespected so far in my career. I just ...
SETH CURRY I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet ...
SETH SHOSTAK The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a co...
SETH MEYERS Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That's almost my name. SETI: Search for E...
SETH SHOSTAK According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a sli...
SETH LLOYD The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 perce...
SETH SHOSTAK The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, ...
SETH GODIN

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