#long

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#along #border #communities #does #into

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over. ↗

— Van Morrison

#became #days #get #long #long time

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#everyone #going #honestly #i #long

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#first #first time #gone #had #how

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#born #concentrate #hard #i #i was born

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#good #her #i #i think #impatient

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#boards #companies #constituents #data #defend

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good. ↗

— Martin Mull

#enough #every #get #good #i

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#brotherhood #dictum #directive #earth #economic