#connections

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#answer #arab #arab world #back #been

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#before #betraying #connections #country #feeling

In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#aware #back #been #bit #connections

If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#personal-relationships #connection

This connection had the potential to be too special to ruin it with the hurt of misfired romantic intentions. And while half of me wanted to tear his shirt off with my teeth, I also wanted him to be in my life for the duration. I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If it meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry, I was prepared to do it with dignity. ↗

— Jessica Thompson

#friendship #love #friendship

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cherish #connections #friends #friends and family #human

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#connections #hard #i #i think #legal

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#communication #connections #distance #divide #down

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#causal #connections #creates #establishing #facts

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#about #cars #connections #culture #helps