"A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind."

-- Melanne Verveer

#Country Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.”
“I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.”
“But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.”
“If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.”
“Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!”
“One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.”
“The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.”
“Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.”

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