#own

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. ↗

— Chris Christie

#center #come #corner #cost #crisis

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that. ↗

— Chris Christie

#back #cannot #getting #house #order

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian. ↗

— Christo

#art #because #book #describe #each

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. ↗

— Steven Chu

#determining #factor #families #only #other

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#follow #french #i #own #russia

These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#becomes #country #discuss #government #guy

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. ↗

— John Ciardi

#any #begins #concern #concerns #down

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#amazes #certain #chapters #characters #conscious thought

Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#bottom #distributes #down #entire #evenly

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#better #concern #criminals #few #handles