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You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
— Edith Wharton
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
— Richard Holbrooke
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
— Richard Holbrooke
I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
— Richard Holbrooke
You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
— Nicholas Sparks
With will one can do anything.
— Samuel Smiles
I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.
— Vincent Kartheiser
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
— Richard Holbrooke
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
— Richard Holbrooke
I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
— Richard Holbrooke
We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.
— Richard Holbrooke
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.
— Henry IV Of France
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
— Richard Holbrooke
Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
— Richard Holbrooke
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
— Richard Holbrooke
It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
— Richard Holbrooke
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything ... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
— Richard Holbrooke
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
— Richard Holbrooke
I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.
— Richard Holbrooke
The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.
— Richard Holbrooke
The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
— Richard Holbrooke
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
— Gregory Maguire
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
— Michael Ignatieff
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
— Richard Holbrooke
I am happy in my prison of passion
— Oscar Wilde
I do not know how long the arm of Mr Holbrooke or Mrs Albright is ... or whether that arm can reach me here.
— Radovan Karadzic
Elections are rarely perfect.
— Richard Holbrooke
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
— Richard Holbrooke
If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
— Richard Holbrooke
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
— Marina Tsvetaeva