#able

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. ↗

— Colin Powell

#afghan #al-qaeda #back #come #control

The lack of available credit and loans is having a severe impact on small businesses in particular, but also their suppliers and the bigger companies too. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#available #bigger #businesses #companies #credit

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#become #celebrate #doing #even #government

People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more frequent and accessible collections, particularly for those living in flats. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#accessible #cardboard #collections #currently #especially

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#available #basic #digital #email #every

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#done #fashion #feminist #i #imagine

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #become #earn #earning #get

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#characters #her #his #novelist #personal