He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.
Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.
Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.
No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.
I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.
I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.
The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
We look up at the same stars and see such different things. " - Jon Snow
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent. ' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm