#operation

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. ↗

— David Korten

#cooperation #countries #easier #holland #humane

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#between #chance #difference #god #operations

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ↗

— John Williams

#between #competition #cooperation #countries #healthy

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #marriage

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#chaos #cooperation #organization #persuasion #pets

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#enough #hands #his #journalist #lawyer

That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#love #marriage #willingness #attitude

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#i #just #nothing #operation #serious

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#essential #every #make #move #operations

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#borders #boundaries #come #global #here