John Pomfret Quotes

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.

John Pomfret

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TimeJobMeDoingDownRight

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Meghan Daum

GoodSayingCareYouGood Fortune

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

HumorYouSense Of HumorAbility

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

Jeffrey Kluger

LifeLoveMarriageChildrenMoney

Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy, I don't know how I will sing today.' But that would change as soon as I went on stage and would merge with my music. She is my best ally, and I don't want to lose her. Nobody other than her would be concerned if I had eaten or had oiled my hair. She is my queen.

Sonu Nigam

ChangeMotherMusicTodayBestHair

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Tom Hodgkinson

PoetrySupportWorldEmbraceUseless

If any person - white, black, brown or yellow - objects to having a police officer potentially ask them for their ID, it makes me wonder what that person is trying to hide.

Mike Gallagher

PoliceYellowMeBlackTryingHide

I go out there to steal the show every night.

Dolph Ziggler

NightGoOutShowStealEvery

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

Diane Greene

MeInterestingLookWantJust

The Defense Department is prone to all of the 'traditional bureaucratic rules,' which is the same thing you'll find in most traditional government systems.

Chris Fussell

GovernmentYouRulesFindSameMost

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Bodhidharma

TruthPureDharmaNatures

I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.

Anthony Head

MindWorldBelieveKnowSometimes

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Phil Donahue

ProblemSolutionSuicidePermanent

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