"The sheer violence of it, the howl of……" — Robert Fisk
"The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business."
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Robert Fisk
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35 Quotes by Robert Fisk
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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How…
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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible…
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I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't…
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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to…
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The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families…
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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent…
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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total…
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I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of…
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And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority -…
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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never…
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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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