“They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.”

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

We don’t have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis.

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.

I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people.

There has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities. [The elections] were the result of pressure by Ayatollah Sistani, by the Iraqi religious authorities, and by the fighting forces in Iraq on America. They left the US no choice but to allow the elections.

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood.

The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger.

The precise place where you would expect to see the least.

The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.

Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.

As we’re on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.