When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.
The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.
For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
[I believe in] the throne. . . parliamentary institutions. . . private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state. . . equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and. . . Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.
Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.
Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance. '
NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.
Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.
What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf) Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron) I thought that was politics. (Wulf) It’s both. (Acheron)
NDA not only stands for National Democratic Alliance but is also the National Development Alliance.
Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.
[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.
The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.