A Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Between Choose Countries Rate Second Second-Rate Shame Two Usa Ussr

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Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian - Poet
August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

Marjane Satrapi

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Andre Weil

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.

Nikita Khrushchev

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Sarah Waters

What we're doing here in America is we're making women choose between the family they love and the job that they need. No other nation on the planet is making these choices. In other countries, they've put politics aside and looked at the facts. When women succeed, the world succeeds. We're losing sight of that here in the USA.

Tom Perez

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Sarah Waters

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

Winston Churchill

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Tryon Edwards

You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.

Billy Graham

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

Earl Browder

When we look at the wider picture, the relationship between the U.K. and America, I know how valuable the friendship is between our two nations. As home secretary, I can tell the House that the importance of the relationship between our countries, the unparalleled sharing of intelligence between our countries, is vital.

Amber Rudd

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.

Leonid Brezhnev

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Helen Keller

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.