#pat

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#civil #clean #clean water #critical #destitute

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#help #listen #older #only #path

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#come #crowds #first #had #listen

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#be different #believe #boston #bronx #different

David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

#david lynch #good #lynch #patient #pretty

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#concessions #emanated #established #forbearance #forever

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#am #being #everywhere #i #i am

Our patience will achieve more than our force. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#achieve #force #more #our #than

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#came #drawn #god #impulse #our