Allies Quotes - Page 3

• How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.

  Simone Elkeles

  Sometimes, Unlikely, Persons

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.274, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Known

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• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  W. L. George

  Peace, Hate, Military

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• Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

  Al D'Amato

  Regret, Mistake, Making Mistakes

  "More Americans: Iraq Worth Going to War". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?

  Greta Van Susteren

  Israel, Cereal, Personality

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• National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services

  Corazon Aquino

  Government, Media, Leader

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  Bob Feller

  War, Europe, People

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• When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Permission, Strikes

  "Who Cares What Europeans Think?". Jewish World Review Column, jewishworldreview.com. March 04, 2002.

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• Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Teacher, Sitting, May

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thank You, Country, Israel

  "Israel entirely 'pro-America'". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  Events, Degrees, Canada

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, Trying, United States

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• Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Trust, Real, Emotional

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• Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.

  Anodea Judith

  Order, Enemy, Secret

  Anodea Judith, Lion Goodman (2012). “Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras”, p.25, Sounds True

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• All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.

  John Shimkus

  Country, War, Fall

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• Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

  Martin Landau

  Years, Eyebrows, Five

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• Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

  Paul McGann

  Feels, Large Family, Protected

  "This Much I Know: Paul McGann". www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2011.

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• The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Technology, Men

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Men, Adversaries

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Men, He Man

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.229

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• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  Zig Ziglar

  Determination, Goal, Enemy

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.154, Pelican Publishing

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• Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

  Adam Grant

  Enemy

  Adam Grant (2016). “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World”, p.89, Penguin

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• The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

  Lord Acton

  Passion, Mankind, Continuing

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.27, VM eBooks

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• Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

  Suzy Kassem

  Time, Truth Is, All Time

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?

  Errol Morris

  Interesting, Dachau, Trials

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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