The attack on Iraq has been long planned. There just hasn't been an excuse for it. Since George H. W. Bush didn't unseat Saddam in 1991, there's been a longing among the extreme right in the United States to finish the job. The war on terrorism has given them that opportunity. Even though the logic is convoluted and fraudulent, it appears they are going to go ahead and finish the job.
Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.
Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.
If it's in the German interest to have good trans-Atlantic relations, well, the task is also to look ahead, but our personal - that we have freedom of movement in the whole of Germany so if we want to see each other, well, I'm game.
There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game. . . You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.
During these times immediately ahead, the world will need many trumpets to sound the clarion call. The world will need many voices to speak the words of truth and healing for which millions long. The world will need many hearts joined together in the work of the soul, and prepared to do the work of God.
Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead. ' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.
No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.
You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.
You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
What I'm trying to do is paint a picture of an atypical human being going through all of the existential struggles, but all the while realizing the carnality and small things, because I like minutiae a lot. All the while knowing that it's a forest - knowing that none of it means anything. I think if more people understood that, they would just go ahead and kill themselves like they're gonna do anyway, but do it quickly as opposed to hanging out and using up resources. Don't just sit around criticizing other people and wasting time. I do that, but I'm not really skilled in any other way.