I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since childhood I have had a horror of vice and it was not without a quite understandable terror that I discerned the plea...
Nancy: [screaming in the boiler room] Come out and show yourself, you bastard! [fixing her watch, and Krueger comes from behind] Nancy: [screaming and jumping from the boiler room and landing in front of her house on a rose bush] Dammit! Where are yo...
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.
In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than so...
If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.
If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.
A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three in the bush.
