#nw

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. ↗

— Heather Mills

#being #celebrity #celebrity culture #children #culture

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#children #commitment #father #his #indeed

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose. ↗

— Demi Moore

#failure #feel #gets #harder #lose

Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone. ↗

— James Mooney

#agreement #circle #facing #form #hands

There never was a war that was not inward. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#never #war

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#focused #inwardly #itself #only #religion

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#alternative #approach #concealed #deployment #detect

It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#department #environment #evolve #homeland #homeland security

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#bill #energy #energy bill #i #look