#ill

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#bob dylan #comes #difference #does #dylan

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#having #i #killed #our #soldiers

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #effort #even #finding #framing

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#difference #little #little thing #little things #make

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#committee #doing #going #humanity #i

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#adequately #africa #blame #cannot #economy

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#dictate #duty #hallowed #honor #ought

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#american dream #country #die #dream #fit