#nation

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#elimination #unnecessary

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. ↗

— Richard Armitage

#critical #east #flexibility #foreign #foreign policy

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it. ↗

— Will Arnett

#because #coming #even #gotta #hadn

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#better #does #exploitation #nation #our

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. ↗

— Kemal Ataturk

#does #final #freedom #get #life

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#launched #national #now #plan #recently

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#buying #customers #definitely #internationally #noise

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#manners #nation

You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an unhealthy & reverie-like vividness of Thoughts, & (pardon the pedantry of the phrase) a diminished Impressibility from Things, my ideas, wishes, & feelings are to a diseased degree disconnected from motion & action. In plain and natural English, I am a dreaming & therefore an indolent man. I am a Starling self-incaged, & always in the Moult, & my whole Note is, Tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#indolence #procrastination #dreams