"You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind."

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Source : Jim Wallis (2006). “God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it”, p.22, Lion Books

Jim Wallis

#Wind Quotes #Political Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
“Most of my work is comedy; it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.”
“Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.”

Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.274, Simon and Schuster
“When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.”
“I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.”
“Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.”
“On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels”

Source : "Cosmo Cosmolino". Book by Helen Garner, 1992.
“I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.”

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