I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.


Eduard Shevardnadze

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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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It was an important act, the troops were able to avoid ... another bloodshed,
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
KAMISESE MARA
But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assi...
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EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
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EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
You know in the West they support realistic forces.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
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EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that wa...
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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate th...
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous fo...
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Cou...
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
Resignation of the government is the only way to solve the present crisis.
ABDUL JALIL
[There was] no relationship between denunciations and my resignation, ... Several reasons that make ...
ALBERTO FUJIMORI
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, wa...
DAVID MACKENZIE
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
DALE CARNEGIE
The only way to avoid that is to get something done in the Congress.
JUAN ROMERO
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an arg...
DALE CARNEGIE
The Russian revolution will not be without bloodshed. I think the authorities will resist.
EDUARD LIMONOV
Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
HENRY SPENCER
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH
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SAMANTHA POWER
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NAJIB MIKATI
I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.
RACHEL HARTMAN
To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...
I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
LAURA KIGHTLINGER
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
ANNIE LENNOX
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a...
DUONG VAN MINH
the only way to avoid having a cloud over the next president is to count all the votes
AL GORE
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to fo...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
On my way back from the store I see all these fire trucks and I think, ?This is unbelievable.? I was...
ANTHONY MONK
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
ALBERTO FUJIMORI
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finall...
DAVID R. BROWER
Bloodshed begets bloodshed. Hatred begits hatred.
HIROMU ARAKAWA
I think the way I started the year, ... my goal was to get to .500.
JAKE WESTBROOK
I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
I think my favorite thing is this one has a bypass to avoid the corners. I think solving the traffic...
CHRIS KENNEDY
It’s about the “Big Picture.” Avoid people who think day-to-day in a small way.
TROY GATHERS
If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing wi...
PENN JILLETTE
I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
CAMILA CABELLO
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
nobody has the right to call for the resignation of a minister. Only the parliament has this right.
BAQIR JABBUR
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
I think it was a blatant rip-off and they were cashing in on the situation. That's my local station ...
ANDY ROBINSON
I was the first person to offer resignation on this issue but no one (media) termed it sacrifice.
AMAR SINGH
I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
DUFFY
My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs...
SHANE WARNE
I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holida...
AASIF MANDVI
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
MAO TSE-TUNG
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
MAO ZEDONG
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
MAO TSE-TUNG
I assumed we had probably covered all the bases and that it was an unconditional resignation.
DREW GOOLSBY
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member
GROUCHO MARX
If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality,...
DALAL GABARA
If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality,...
DALAL GEBARA
My resignation date allows me to follow through with the work of this important committee.
VIRGINIA ANDERSON
It's okay. It was important to avoid Spain. The Czech Republic is an opponent that I think will suit...
AGE HAREIDE
And I think tonight we also saw players keen to avoid injury ahead of the Games, which was possibly ...
IAN RUTLEDGE
I was the patriarch, using whatever method necessary to get my own way. Not once did I think I was d...
MASARU SUZUKI
Text messages and mobile phones ... help small groups of rioters. They can connect easily. It's not ...
ALAIN BAUER
He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.
RANSOM RIGGS
I thought baseball was going to be the way to go for me. Now I definitely think football's my future...
CAZ PIUROWSKI
If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the ...
ARCHIE LEE MOORE
If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the ...
ARCHIE LEE MOORE
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And th...
STEVE ROSS
I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was alm...
ROBIN MCKINLEY
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX
Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING
Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go ...
MEGAN DERR
While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His h...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
We are not suggesting the resignation or pushing for the resignation of the secretary-general,
JOHN DANFORTH
Under current law, the only way an airline can avoid burdensome pension costs is by entering bankrup...
DUANE WOERTH
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THA...
GROUCHO MARX
I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
CARL FORTI
The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engin...
NATASHA TSAKOS
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
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