#embers

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#amp #club #complicate #could #countries

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. ↗

— Asa Gray

#am #anyone #better #calling #convinced

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed. ↗

— Aberjhani

#americans #faith #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #haiku #haikus

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#been #case #church #community #death

Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting. ↗

— James Douglas

#american people #because #congress #constituents #governors

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#countries #development #members #my own #new

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. ↗

— Aaron Siskind

#captured #caught #everything #feeling #film

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#been #broken #chaotic #crime #domestic

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#believe #cannot #communicate #danger #each