“We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Time Untime
Catch Phrases
“We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Time Untime
Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006) Yugoslavian and Serbian politician
Testimony of Gen. Wesley Clark at the Former Yugoslavia Tribunal
Disputed
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
“Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.”
James MacDonald (1960) American pastor
Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 98
Barack Obama book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
Leighton W. Smith, Jr. (1939) United States Navy admiral
Why Peacekeeping is So Difficult http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/LWSmith/lwsmith-con07.html <br class="br">Interview at USC Berkeley (1997) <br class="br">Context: When we went to Bosnia the people in Bosnia welcomed us with open arms, and I would go down the street and people would come up and say, "Admiral, thank you for bringing peace to Bosnia." And my standard answer was this, "I cannot bring peace to this country. Only you can bring peace to this country. I can bring the conditions in which peace can be established, but I cannot bring peace to this country." So the mistake we have made in our country, if we have made a mistake, is that we believe that we can influence or that we can enforce a peace, and we cannot. You can stop the fighting, and we did. And you can put money into a country and you can try to build it up so that the momentum you get from a visible economic engine creates a condition where peace will take hold. But that requires a political will that is not today evident in Bosnia. It was certainly not evident when I was there.<br>I think we are doing the right thing to put our military into these kinds of operations. No one is better able to do it. Peacekeeping is not a soldier function, but only soldiers can do it, because we've got the organization. We can make things happen in a hurry.