#ale

You can create sense out of nonsense, something out of nothing. You can create wealth out of dearth, viable ventures out of turbulent adventures. You can create mercies out of miseries. You can create tomorrow’s peace out of today’s crisis. ↗

— Ikechukwu Joseph

#create-vision #destiny #develop-talents #discover-potentials #dreams

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #fact #family #genes #grasses

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#good life #hold #life #loyalties #right

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#hand-in-hand #israelis #jordan #palestinians #security

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. ↗

— David Amram

#bach #being #chorale #four #going

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset. ↗

— Primo Angeli

#characteristics #designer #discovering #marketable #most

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. ↗

— David Baker

#book #does #give #give me #grammar

Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him." She's like "oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!' ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#bump #even #everyone #funny #george

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. ↗

— Andre Breton

#dali #genius #hesitates #like #man