George Packer Quotes

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

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I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn't long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

Jim Mattis

EnoughEnjoyLongUniformYears

Honesty is love.

Andy Dunn

LoveHonestyHonesty Is

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

Rose Namajunas

PositiveAttitudeMyselfControl

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

Rosamund Pike

YouWantProfileLowKeepPublic

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Roy Barnes

PeoplePoliticalPartyCleanDivide

When they talk about my job being important, I say, 'The important jobs are the ones that you'd notice if you left for a week.'

Mike Quigley

JobWeekYouImportantSayTalk

I actually have a punching bag right outside in my garden.

Millie Bobby Brown

BagGardenOutsideRightActually

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

Joyce Maynard

LifeMeThoughtLongReadyNothing

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Jonathan Haidt

GoodServiceSmartPeopleCongress

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

Dhanush

I AmLookingArtistAlienPlayHere

I have observed that people make strategic plans for brands, businesses, and companies, but they are not always strategic about themselves.

Denise Morrison

PeoplePlansAlwaysMakeThemselves

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Donella Meadows

PoliticsEnergyPoliticalAnalysis

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