32 Quotes by Tim Marshall

All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out.

although we have broken free from the shackles of gravity, we are still imprisoned in our own minds, confined by our suspicion of the ‘other’, and thus our primal competition for resources

THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on maps: they were lines that did not exist in reality and created some of the most artificial borders the world has seen. An attempt is now being made to redraw them in blood.

India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around.

What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other.

If we are going to contend in the conference, we will have to win our home matches.

Kevin had a lot of nerves playing in his first match as a sophomore. He hung in there to get this one under his belt to make him a better player.

We're not seeing the widespread damage you would expect with a warning like that. Addison got whacked pretty good. I'm not sure whether the storm just collapsed over them. We've got a lot of trees and wires down.

We are expecting a lot out of Jason.