#ira

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt. ↗

— Peter King

#afford #american #american president #because #benefit

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over. ↗

— Peter King

#better #between #bureaucracy #class #come

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist. ↗

— Richard King

#cinema #come #else #exist #inspiration

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. ↗

— Richard King

#basing #christianity #conspiracies #folklore #government

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#falling #falling in love #found #himself #i

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration. ↗

— Steve King

#need #people #quit #respiration #taxation

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system. ↗

— Allen Klein

#good #laughing #respiratory #system #your

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#get #go #go for it #might #movie

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ignorance #knowledge #mother #which #wonder