Safe Haven Quotes - Page 2

• I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Working Together, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Trying, Way, Impossible

  "Safe Haven". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2010.

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• That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Trying, Easy, Make The Best Of It

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2012

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• With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Care, Chance

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2017

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• There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Gold, Looks

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A Grandmother is a safe haven.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Grandmother, Grandparent, Havens

  Suzette Haden Elgin (2000). “The Grandmother Principles”

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• The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

  Michael Mullen

  Als, Return, Defeat

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• Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children.

  Jack Straw

  Country, Children, People

  "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

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• I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Generations, Looks

  "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s The Pacific". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 04, 2010.

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• By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose. Freedom and opportunity is the cornerstone of American society, and immigrants continue to embody that freedom.

  Spencer Abraham

  Opportunity, Immigration, Fleeing

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• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Reality, Risk, Examination

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

  Brassai

  Wall, Voice, Giving

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• An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

  Sara Sheridan

  Children, Aunt, Your Side

  "How my niece ended up signing copies of my book" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.

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• There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Thinking, Today

  "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 4, 2010.

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• And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

  George W. Bush

  Support, Decision, United States

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

  Julia Gillard

  Terrorism, Afghanistan, Havens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

  Ed Koch

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, People, United States

  "James Foley on the Dehumanization of War: Acclaimed Filmmaker Haskell Wexler Shares 2012 Interview". www.democracynow.org. September 12, 2014.

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• We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.

  Barack Obama

  War, Iraq, Support

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Men, Want

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• We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

  Cofer Black

  Operations, Collecting, Terrorist

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• When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.

  Maya Banks

  Men, Giving, Honor

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• When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Struggle, Journey

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Iraq

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition.

  Margaret H. Marshall

  Self, Common Humanity, Decision

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