"While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction"

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#Thinking Quotes #President Quotes #Should Quotes

“Opportunity is never lost... it simply moves on to someone else if you don't seize it!”

Source : FaceBook post by Kim Garst from Apr 11, 2014
“I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.”

Source : Karen Hawkins (2009). “Sleepless in Scotland”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not a make-up person, I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine. Less is more: "no makeup" makeup.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.”

Source : Christopher Flavin, Amanda Chiu, Lisa Mastny (2008). “Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap”, p.36, Worldwatch Institute
“Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?”
“In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.”
“It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.”
“First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.98, Univ of California Press

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