#kin

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#books #could #explain #had #knew

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#again #against #around #circles #ensuring

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#building #go #high #high level #i

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know. ↗

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#believe #change #depend #fifth #fish

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#drive #steps #taking #towards #want

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#alone #been #beneficial #concentrated #country

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#ago #back #eight #financial #go

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes. ↗

— Russell Baker

#causes #chain #feel #feel good #good

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#lost #money #nobody #profit #taking

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#doing #had #handing #him #i