Allies Quotes - Page 31

• just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Murderer, Fronts

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• You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

  Zadie Smith

  Children, Your Children

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• Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.

  Peter Brook

  Glowing, Perfect, Simplicity

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• At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Safe Haven, Two, Enemy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

  Tom Hayden

  Community, Black, Organized Labor

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• No stonger allies no greater friends no bigger fighters of honor could a king behould then these assembled afore me mine brothers mine blood

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Kings, Blood

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• Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

  Primo Levi

  Rose, Enemy, Sun

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who has led a good life will find many allies.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Good Life, Men, He Man

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• I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)

  Naomi Novik

  Beautiful, Lonely, Home

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.674, Del Rey

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• Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  William S. Burroughs

  Goal, Suffering, Facts

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1982). “Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957”, Full Court Pr

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• Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book. “I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.

  Meg Waite Clayton

  Morning, Book, Thinking

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• There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Four, May

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VIII : The Professor Explains, 1908.

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• Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

  Italo Calvino

  Country, Important, World

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• Woman is woman's natural ally.

  Euripides

  Women, Natural

  "Alope". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, World, Someday

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.27, Best Books on

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• As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy.

  Jim Costa

  Believe, Democracy, Important

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• I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.

  Harvey Jackins

  Males, Men And Women, Liberation

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• Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Turkeys

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• While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.

  Bart Gordon

  People, September 11, Agents

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• If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.

  Margo Kingston

  Iraq, Australia, Terrorism

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• Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

  John William Draper

  Thinking, Ideas, Purpose

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• We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Enemy, Management

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• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  Jack Antonoff

  Strong, Fire, Levels

  "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Helping, Natural

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• Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Country, War, Successful

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