“Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.” KnowsBodyImaginationPerfectionHatredDancerBalletIntrigueMilieuBalkans Book:Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album Source: Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album
“The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.” MovingBlackAttentionSeaEuropeAreasSouthDividedSouthernLocationAsiaVirusesBalkansSouth Asia Author:David Nabarro
“The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.” BalkansPomeranians Author:Otto von Bismarck
“Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.” ImportantPoliticalThreeInterestNaturalPowerfulEconomicSecurityAmbitionGoldImportanceHistoricalIncludingChinaOilNeighborRussiaEnormousGasConcentrationRegionsPrizeIranRepublicReservesTurkeysAsianStandpointMineralsNatural GasBalkans Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.” IfsWantStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesSoldierRemoveBalkansPeninsulas Author:Pat Buchanan
“Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.” CountryBlackSeaMiddleNeighborEasternTurkeysAsianEuropean CountriesBalkansCaucasianAsian CountriesCaspian Sea Author:Ahmet Davutoglu
“After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?” GivingWarGovernmentActionEffortSupportResourcesOrganizationCharityTerrorAppearanceBillionsEngagedIslamicRegionsEstablishmentInvestigationAsianHarborsMockWar On TerrorMosquesBalkans Author:Sibel Edmonds
“If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.” IfsWarAbleMastersBandEastSufficientPlagueBrutalityBalkans Author:Wilhelm Keitel
“There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.” Has BeensEnoughHandsPastTurnsDealsBloodOfferingSerbiaBalkans Author:Ivica Dacic
“Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.” CoursesCasesCreationUnionsSovietSoviet UnionBalkansBulgaria Author:Todor Zhivkov
“There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.” ShouldProblemCommonSettlementBalkansBulgaria Author:Todor Zhivkov
“Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.” PeopleWantYearsRealPlayFeltCausesAudienceMilitaryEndureFolksPatrioticVeteranStarvingBalkansDuressMilitary Veteran Author:Sheryl Crow
“Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.” ThinkingPoliticsClassSubjectsMilitaryCitizensGunPermanentBordersCorpsesGoverningGreat PowerDimesPosingAssertiveNickelsDocileBalkansTotes Author:Mark Steyn
“I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.” DoneBehindsKeysEuropeTrainNewspapersRussiaServingEasternCircusBicycleEastern EuropeBalkans Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell