108 Pacific Quotes for You to Enjoy

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive. Lee Kuan Yew

Best Will Thrive Understanding Other States Collapse Possible Outcome More Cast Allow Countries New Adversaries Likely Been Die Soviet Soviet Union After Cannot Pacific China View Union Each Grow Cooperate United United States Coexist Competitors

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power. Lee Kuan Yew

Peace Balance Power Depend Security Both Balance Of Power Still Pacific Europe

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific. Leon Panetta

Power States Had Well Always Pacific United United States Presence

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area. Leon Panetta

Free Power Think Our Proliferation Some Threats Free Access Area Major Operating Access Dealing Korea Issue Providing Ships Stability Common Pacific China Region Whole Nuclear

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific. Linda Colley

Power Revolution Relations Cost Only Colonies Rethink Also Forced Trade American Influenced Pacific Asia American Revolution Slave Slavery Britain

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii. Louis Zamperini

Army Field Air Corps Out Hawaii Operating Up Ended Pacific

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.' Luke Scott

Freedom You Man Ocean Own Swimming Mark Caribbean Hey Destiny Out Atlantic No-One Because Leave His America Pacific Pacific Ocean Place Much Reason Why Here

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles. Lyall Watson

Somewhere Every Air Hundred Bits Bits And Pieces Thousand Rush Angeles Rises More Cleanest Count Highway Over Hour Pieces Los Antarctica Los Angeles South Pacific Centre Migration Even Thick Downtown Million Two

One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings. Mary Gaitskill

Time Man Heights Alice Summer Francisco Restaurant Wearing About Above Crowded Knees Hot Fell She Without Years Years Ago Walked Stockings Sitting Flat San Pacific San Francisco Heels Inch Skirt Roughly Her Night

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. Mary Ritter Beard

Travel Else Meet Astonish Bizarre Atlantic Similarity Nobody Nobody Else Go Surprise Wherever Pacific Us Much Across Things

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. Max de Pree

Must Some Temporary Leaders Understand Shell South Cultures Authority Listened Pacific Holds Should Speaker Who Symbol Position

How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs - 635,000 tons - and napalm - 32,557 tons - than during the entire Pacific campaign against the Japanese during World War II? Mehdi Hasan

War World Example Peninsula Entire More Fact Dropped For Example How Korean Korean Peninsula Campaign Than American Pacific Against Japanese Planes Many Aware Bombs World War World War II Tons

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now. Mona Simpson

Better Job Long First Sold Later Slightly Jobs Run Cart Long Series Thus First Job Until Still Continue Began Than Decade Goes Pacific Even Novel Series Each Even Now Film Found Now Each One Last Position

When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! Neal Adams

Work Me Try First Young Nothing Other Project Several Those Characters Join Mystic Advance He Since Like Said Always Comics Yes Pacific Younger Asked Created Choice Mike Original Series Creators

For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean in World War II. It took him to Capitol Hill, Beijing and eventually the Oval Office. Neil Bush

Service War World Ocean Crew Took Summoned Oval Oval Office Over Hill Him Mates His Office Unexpected Beijing Pacific Pacific Ocean Places Skies Capitol Capitol Hill Many Dad Eventually World War World War II

The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Best Pacific Toilet Satellites

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. Nelson A. Miles

Travel Philanthropist Sight Gulf Thousands Constantly Atlantic Had Terrible Fallen Line Been Green Pacific Lakes Placed Victims Might Races Who Wars Graves Two

There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpack on the Pacific Crest Trail across the California/Oregon border. Nicholas Kristof

Life My Life Few Crest Backpack Border Years Trail Very Few Things Done Just Pacific Apart Across Twice Things

I'm like the female version of George Clooney in 'Up in the Air.' I have to have an eye mask, and Amore Pacific has this cream face mask that's moisturizing. Moisture is so important in the stuffy, dry air on a plane. Nina Dobrev

Face Mask Important Air Eye Like Dry Female George George Clooney Version Up Clooney Pacific Plane Cream

Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it's the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish. Nobu Matsuhisa

Ocean Know Course Fish Same Different Pacific Pacific Ocean Japanese

In the night there's sometimes a sort of cursed quality to the Pacific Northwest. Panos Cosmatos

Quality Sometimes Sort Northwest Cursed Pacific Night

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum. Paul Keating

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience. Rami Malek

War Myself Patience Calm Definitely Would Someone More Through Never Course Matured Shooting Pacific Who Compare Actually

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