Alliances Quotes - Page 8

• What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words.

  Roy Kesey

  Reading, Past, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

  Frank Gaffney

  Military, Europe, President

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• Some of the guys in the Northern Alliance are war criminals. One of the Northern Alliance commanders ran a slave girl network in Kabul in 1994. Remember that there was a period when every woman on the streets was at risk of being raped. This was the Northern Alliance period of glory.

  Robert Fisk

  Girl, War, Guy

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

  Bela Fleck

  Hip Hop, Together, Jam

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, World, Flaws

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• That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Fighting, Political Language

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

  Reid Hoffman

  Careers, Helping, Employee

  Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh (2014). “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age”, p.124, Harvard Business Review Press

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• His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Wife, Dying, Trying

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Clever, Agency

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• Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Blood, Feuds

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.24, Canongate Books

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• Fine,” Kyle said. “I’m a werewolf. I’m not part of a pack, but I do have an alliance. Have you heard of the Praetor Lupus?” “I’ve heard of lupus,” said Simon. “Isn’t it a kind of disease?

  Cassandra Clare

  Disease, Kind, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1516, Simon and Schuster

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• Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

  Deborah Harkness

  Garden, Hair, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.180, Penguin

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• 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)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Hunters, Strange

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• Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Philosophy, Reflection, Abstract

  Gilles Deleuze (2001). “Cinema 1: The Movement Image”, p.11, A&C Black

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• She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the niggling fear that if you fall out with a Thief, he might see it as his right and responsibility to remove you. There are some checks, of course. There is only ever one Thief. They are prohibited from owning any property. Their training inevitably generates the isolation that makes them independent, but also keeps them from forming alliances that might become threats to the throne. It is not the folly you might think.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Fall, Independent, Responsibility

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• Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

  John Owen

  War, Drawing, Grace

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• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trying, Way, Made

  "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Responsibility, Men, Omnipotence

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• One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Creating, Different

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.19, Vintage Canada

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• Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

  David Graeber

  Revolutionary, Oppressed, Tacit

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• ...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

  Reid Hoffman

  Valleys, Way, Employee

  Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh (2014). “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age”, p.13, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.

  Kevin Gutzman

  War, Commitment, Russia

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• NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.

  Newt Gingrich

  Nato, Capable

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

  Mark Shields

  Russia, Putin, Missions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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