Quotes of Intervention - somelinesforyou

“ Negotiations (on bases) are practically over. ”

- Traian Basescu

“ Whether it is mediation, or facilitation, or bilateral dialogue, we need to initiate a dialogue. ”

- Pervez Musharraf

“ The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ Everything intercepts us from ourselves. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. ”

- Eldridge Cleaver

“ A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No. ”

- Harold Wilson

“ Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. ”

- Corrie ten Boom

“ Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. ”

- Unknown

“ War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ This was so much of a waste, this negotiation. ”

- Paul Scott

“ We have started, but very briefly. I don't know when we will resume negotiations. We're at the first stage. I am here, I'm waiting. ”

- Thierry Henry

“ Our language hasn't changed. We're in negotiations, so that's all we're focused on. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ I don't think there should be negotiation. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ Overall, we have been pleased with the progress of negotiations. ”

- Ian Hamilton

“ We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. ”

- Sir Anthony Eden

“ I am not willing to risk the lives of German soldiers for countries whose names we cannot spell properly. ”

- Volker Ruhe

“ All governmental intervention has as its object a forcible altering of what people would do were they unrestrained. ”

- Leonard Read

“ The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ”

- Konrad Adenauer

“ If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat. ”

- Marvin S. Levin

“ Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. ”

- John Gay

“ An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God. ”

- Gabriele Nanni

“ We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention. ”

- Dan Marino

“ This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. ”

- Bill Frist

“ I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend. ”

- Kenny Cunningham

“ Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry. ”

- Max Baucus

“ But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else… ”

- June Jordan
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