#ops

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. ↗

— John Amery

#american troops #arriving #england #increasing #numbers

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#furniture #hours #i #i do #ideal

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#african #armies #because #intimidate #keeping

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#become #goes #immediate #like #music

The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#appropriate #been #called #certainly #even

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops. ↗

— Christian Bale

#crops #grow #i #i can #i do

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#drops #joy #like #pierced #rain

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#ago #am #any #aware #captured

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#be careful #because #box #brown #browns

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship. ↗

— John R. Allen

#afghan #afghanistan #conduct #day #defines