#oura

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions. ↗

— George Weinberg

#aside #courage #her #his #nearly

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#competition #conceive #courage #designed #embody

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bills #boost #china #common #common sense

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#courage #firm #firm resolve #force #heroes

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#faith #hope #like #nothing #ridiculous

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. ↗

— Charles Williams

#charitable #contrition #encourage #every #exhibit

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#benefit #child #courage #crossover #doubt

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. ↗

— Charles Wilson

#courage #man #peace #war

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it. ↗

— Terri Windling

#buy #encourage #field #fresh #go

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#believed #encouragement #friends #get #had