#mp

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#compose #desires #government #ignore #iraqi

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? ↗

— Morley Safer

#caring #compassionate #considered #defective #does

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different. ↗

— Marat Safin

#definitely #different #get #i #out

I hate competition. ↗

— Marat Safin

#hate #i

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win. ↗

— Marat Safin

#had #hated #i #losing #matter

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with. ↗

— Marat Safin

#balls #break #buy #courts #impossible

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move. ↗

— Marat Safin

#grass #important #important things #most #move

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow. ↗

— William Safire

#columnists #drawn #eager #follow #grasp

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ↗

— William Safire

#american #american culture #compound #culture #device

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

#attack #characterize #choice #critics #current