#own

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

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#end #i #iraqi #iraqi people #isolation

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. ↗

— C. Day Lewis

#already #clear #desk #down #first

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#ask #down #fear #goes #house

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality. ↗

— Adam Ant

#back #did #doing #east #gardening

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#aspects #background #cast #characters #clone

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#down #editor #every #however #just

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#always #became #both #colored #controlled

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. ↗

— David Antin

#brown #lie #little #man #myth

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#rhythm #scene #structure