"If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time."

-- Rob Hopkins

#Government Quotes #Community Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I'm proposing â€¦ that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.”
“Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.”
“At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!”
“I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.”
“Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.”
“In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.”
“It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?”

Source : "The art of political euphemisms", news.bbc.co.uk. August 5, 2008.
“Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.”

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