#insp

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

#always #another #country #desire #first

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #being #continent #cultures #fascination

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#america #because #bobby #campaign #care

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#ballet #battleground #big #big movie #chess

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#delights #depends #everything #imagination #joy

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#director #enough #hold #inspired #key

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#inspire #me #really #somebody #special

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#friends #i #inspiring #kids #myself

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#demand #engagements #go #immediate #inspirations

Great change doesn't come with official endorsement. ↗