#lives

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience. ↗

— Michael Franti

#building #change #climate #climate change #help

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#does #hear #hears #lives #master

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11. ↗

— Bill Frist

#daily #daily lives #devote #duty #ensuring

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#any #cute #divine #divine love #drawn

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#lives #look #lot #made #moments

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#books #doubled #lives #pleasure #reading

Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#been #bickering #camp #founded #i

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#how #know #lives #our #our lives

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #feel #flat #incredulity #lives