Famous quotes containing the words city, card, united and/or states:
“When the city gate catches fire, it’s the fish in the moat who suffer.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The Card Catalogue: “See also” leads into the wilderness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let’s all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
—Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)