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  • We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. -- Cofer Black
  • The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm. -- George Osborne
  • Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States. -- Leon Panetta
  • Love can sometimes achieve the impossible -- Nicholas Sparks
  • A Grandmother is a safe haven. -- Suzette Haden Elgin
  • Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure. -- Etgar Keret
  • I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks -- Scott McClellan
  • Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state. -- Barack Obama
  • Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million -- Al Jardine
  • She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment. -- Barack Obama
  • I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. -- Barack Obama
  • Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism. -- Julia Gillard
  • I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first. -- Hill Harper
  • In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind. -- Sandra Cisneros
  • When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another. -- Bruce Conner
  • At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
  • It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million. -- Al Jardine
  • This is actually true of the overall fight against al-Qaeda and trans-national extremists, that as you put pressure on them in one location, they'll seek safe haven sanctuaries in other areas. So you do have to continue to pursue them. But they have less capability. -- David Petraeus
  • It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf. -- Olafur Eliasson
  • I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all. -- Mark Steyn
  • Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda. -- Michael Mullen
  • There is no safe haven in today's markets. -- Paul Singer
  • The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling. -- Hillary Clinton
  • For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated. -- Jane Leavy
  • An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side. -- Sara Sheridan
  • When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind. -- Matt Bomer
  • If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity. -- Brit Marling
  • Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
  • Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. -- T.J. Mihaila
  • The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan. -- Michael Mullen
  • The True's towns, with colorful names like Dry Bend, Jerusalem's Lot, Oree, and Sidewinder, were safe havens, but they never stayed in those places for long; mostly they were migratory. -- Stephen King
  • A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks. -- Scott McClellan
  • He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he'll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions. Once you've loved like that, the only safe haven is resentment. -- Richard Powers
  • No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything... -- Ilona Andrews
  • I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. -- Steven Spielberg
  • In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. -- Douglas Coupland
  • Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach. -- Israel Horovitz
  • When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them. -- Khloe Kardashian
  • Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room. -- Laura Wasser
  • The curve of your eyes goes around my heart,A round of dance and sweetness,Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle,And if I don't know any more all that I've lived throughIt's because I haven't always been seen by you. -- Paul Eluard
  • There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. -- Dave Brubeck
  • For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children. -- Scott Turow
  • The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest. -- Albert Barnes
  • My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect. -- Brittany Murphy
  • At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone. -- Margaret Atwood
  • We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life. -- Mark Cantrell
  • Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq. -- Barack Obama
  • I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect. -- Brittany Murphy
  • For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be in my home or take my kids to school. But I realized it really wasn't that. It really is its own spaceship. And I had always been a space traveler. -- Michael J. Massimino
  • There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared. -- Jodi Picoult
  • The thick murmur of my name on his tongue was almost enough to push me over the edge as I clung to the sweetly strange need to hold him safe within my arms. Even, dare I say, within my body. Is it the conceit of every woman that she can provide such a haven? Is it the dream of every man to find it? -- Sara Poole
  • Denying Al Qaeda safe haven was the right decision. -- George W. Bush
  • This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. -- Barack Obama
  • Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world. -- Matt Bomer
  • The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence -- Brassai
  • ...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven. -- Ed Koch
  • Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying. -- James Moore
  • BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into. -- Morley Safer
  • There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down. -- Michael Hudson
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