#nations

I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them. ↗

— Rau'Shee Warren

#fight #i #just #like #opponents

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#beings #civilized #civilized nations #earth #great

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#how #just #kick #like #many

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#cell #cell research #currently #embryonic #embryonic stem cell

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#believe #certain #certain things #christian #commanded

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#interest #nations #separates #sometimes #sympathy