#alliance

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#another #enter #follies #friendship #into

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#allies #existentialism #love #madness #pain

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#america #begin #had #harm #hussein

Time owed an alliance to the undying. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#death #time #death

Leaders draw out ones individual greatness ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul-warren #leaders #leadership #sozo #voice-of-the-nations

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#confederation #exist #independent #only #states

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#alliance #always #born-again #christians #comes

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#alliance #benefit #chess #close #obvious

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not. ↗

— Ron Kind

#alliance #alternative #certain #dates #energy

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#critical #done #nothing #people #same