We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place… My body must be anchored to the ground and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people -… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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'Hoop Dreams'was an unbelievable struggle. We were trying to raise money in the midst of shooting it, and just explaining to people… — Gordon Quinn Copy Share Image
The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
He grinned. It was a wicked grin, the kind that made the blood in Clary's veins run a little faster. "You want… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower… — Jeanne de Salzmann Copy Share Image
American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Their efforts to create reality on the ground… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
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There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people. And he started to do what was possible… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
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![“Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our sport and want to make an effort - but in my own way. I am Nico [Rosberg] and not Lewis [Hamilton]!” quote by Bernie Ecclestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15c/bernie-ecclestone-8452_champion_bernie-ecclestone-is-the-commercial-righ_2948.png)
