(13 quotes found)
“She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”
Kate Chopin
“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”
William Hurrell Mallock
“China is firmly opposed to Lee Teng-hui carrying out any activities in Japan under any pretext.”
Zhang Qiyue
“In case anyone intends to raise a pretext, they are just after seeking pretexts (to refer Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council),”
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“He would rob some sex workers who he 'lifted' on the pretext of seeking sex and he sometimes also raped his victims.”
David Magara
“To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.”
Voltaire
“There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find out if that [reason cited by a lawyer] is true.”
Henry Wade
“I'm really confused after Mr. Sharon's statement. Is he seeking a pretext for not negotiating, because he said he can't negotiate with us without having a precondition, and then he said we must come to the negotiations without precondition, so he's conditioning us and asking to come into negotiations from scratch.”
Saeb Erakat
“Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as a pretext to insult a religion.”
Yuri Thamrin
“The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights questions are completely without reason and driven by ulterior motives.”
