#nation

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#during #engine #eu #europe #important

It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#because #encountered #expected #hope #iraq

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked. ↗

— John Clellon Holmes

#bunch #came #conclusion #different #generation

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#adult #allowed #boy #cringe #develop

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #fighters #good #greatest #hand

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#away #beautiful #block #chipping #elimination

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. ↗

— Epictetus

#character #determine #example #follow #imagine

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. ↗

— Robert Huber

#chemistry #could #easily #follow #get

They call themselves believers and thereby signify that they are pilgrims, strangers and aliens in the world. Indeed, a staff in the hand does not identify a pilgrim as definitely as calling oneself a believer publicly testifies that one is on a journey, because faith simply means: What I am seeking is not here, and for that very reason I believe it. Faith expressly signifies the deep, strong, blessed restlessness that drives the believer so that he cannot settle down at rest in this world, and therefore the person who has settled down completely at rest has also ceased to be a believer, because a believer cannot sit still as one sits with a pilgrim's staff in one's hand – a believer travels forward ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#believers #faith #inspiration #pilgrims #religion

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#construction #effective #entire #fact #in fact