You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making.
And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.