#nation

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#bad #bad luck #being #born #determination

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. ↗

— John Pomfret

#america #beacon #broader #control #democracy

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests. ↗

— John Pomfret

#bosnia #directly #engage #i #i think

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#agenda #changes #crisis #franklin #franklin roosevelt

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#act #down #imagination #must #own

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#behavior #explanations #human #human behavior #left

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination. ↗

— Hugo Pratt

#been #chance #exists #go #imagination

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#imagination #leave #let us #men #pretty

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#champion #compassion #courage #day #democracy