#quest

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#advantage #build #follow #govern #hand

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#advantage #alternatives #always #between #bring

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. ↗

— Bono

#allowed #anywhere #because #commitment #concern

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #constantly #deals #fact #faith

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left? ↗

— David Bowie

#come #down #get #got #how

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#being #consider #i #interest #live

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#asked #bad #bad one #been #between

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important. ↗

— Mark Udall

#also #borders #go #how #important

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work. ↗

— Jo Brand

#kent #live #love #question #work

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#comes #except #freedom #generous #liberals