It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
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Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD If that means starving ourselves, and starving the club of income, in order to make this parasite de... OLIVER HOUSTON To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI All told, it doesn't seem to me like we're starving here. ANTONIO RECINE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people... ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T... THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together. MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug... GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p... EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a... DEBORAH HEILIGMAN A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than t... STEVEN MAGEE You have to make more noise than anybody else, you have to make yourself more obtrusive than anybody... EMMELINE PANKHURST I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat pean... ROBERT E. LEE I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat pean... GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE I never really look too far ahead, to be honest. CASEY STONER Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. PEARL BUCK Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. PEARL S. BUCK Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o... DIETER F. UCHTDORF I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI Because I want to be remembered. SHERMAN ALEXIE A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are... THOMAS S. MONSON So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin ... ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ... L. LIONEL KENDRICK The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time... DOUGLAS WOOD What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not... ELEANOR H. PORTER If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it. SUZETTE VEARNON People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h... ERIC JEROME DICKEY There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me. NINA LACOUR Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ... JOSEPH SMITH JR. Many people have asked me, 'How do you make a single life a happy one? My answer is, 'Create the bes... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our m... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be ... DEBASISH MRIDHA What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else KWAME NKRUMAH You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use ... FRANK B. KELLOGG I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch. BRUCE BARTON It looked like people were sick, tired and starving, and it didn't seem like we were doing anything ... ARIELLE WISOTSKY The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be reg... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. 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RALPH MERKLE Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two
rascals can be ten times as vicious as o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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