The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
‐‐ Jack Keane
The Taliban is resilient.
‐‐ Leon Panetta
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
‐‐ Fatema Mernissi
The Taliban knows they have more to fear from an educated girl than an American drone.
‐‐ Tina Brown
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
‐‐ Richard Engel
The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.
‐‐ Richard Engel
The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel
The Taliban rose to power in 1996, vowing stability and an end to the violence raging across the country between warring mujahedeen factions, and to implement rule by Sharia law, or strict Islamic rule.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario
The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
‐‐ E. P. Thompson
The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.
‐‐ Keith Sweat
'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
‐‐ Carolyn See
The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows suffered a metamorphosis, going from the real and social issues to the hair-raising.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui
The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.
‐‐ Gregory Benford
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
‐‐ Edmund White
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.
‐‐ Martin Filler
The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria
'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
‐‐ Pete Hamill
The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
‐‐ Brian Greene
The Tanzanian government recognised there is a problem: that they don't have enough sterile syringes, that they are being reused probably four or five times each, and that this reuse is a massive contributor to their burden of healthcare.
‐‐ Marc Koska
The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
‐‐ Lao Tzu
The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.
‐‐ Andrew Nikiforuk
The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
‐‐ Andrew Nikiforuk
The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.
‐‐ Christopher McDougall
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
‐‐ C. Everett Koop
The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.
‐‐ John Patrick
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
The tarot is sacred.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky
The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
‐‐ Roman Jakobson
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor
The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
‐‐ Arthur Middleton
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
‐‐ Thomas Mann
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
‐‐ John Cheever
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
‐‐ John Buchan
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
‐‐ Craig Raine
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
‐‐ Maria Montessori
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger
The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.
‐‐ Jimmy Reid
The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.
‐‐ Martti Ahtisaari
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis