#lest

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. ↗

— Abba Eban

#governments #impulsive #into #lest #me

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes. ↗

— John Erskine

#goes #knows #leader #she #simplest

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair. ↗

— Thom Filicia

#fair #furniture #galactica #great #i

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers. ↗

— Peter Fraser

#best #broadly #citizens #country #education

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#charge #day #end #every #fashion

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#desires #dreamer #dreams #humblest #i

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#astronomy #far #noblest #sight

Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#army #been #beginning #detained #during

Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#both #effects #embargo #every #family

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#certain #cooking #current #difficult #eat