#in

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. ↗

— Henri La Fontaine

#democratic #established #institutions #international #international institutions

People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#barack #barack obama #conservative #going #govern

I don't do what I'm doing to fight terror. ... I do it because I care about kids. Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities. But working over there, I've learned a few things. I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#inspirational #terror #war #death

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional. ↗

— M. Emmet Walsh

#before #films #had #i #people

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#faced #great #impregnable #jefferson #lincoln

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#destiny #his #meets #often #person

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#also #animated #anyone #entrusted #love

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#alcohol #become #broader #church #enhanced

I always felt that Jim Morrison was a terrible name for the front man of The Doors. No, for a band called The Doors, a name like Rusty Hinge would have been more appropriate. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#jim-morrison #music #rusty-hinge #the-doors #funny

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#fires #his #impossibilities #made #man