#rain

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#amazon #create #destruction #disorganized #economic

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud. ↗

— David Cameron

#back #cut #damaging #decisions #difficult

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#control #farmers #farming #glad #god

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #magic #purpose #rain #surprise

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#aim #any #consider #every #honest

I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#brain #does #else #i #i love

There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#cardio #could #day #feel #hurt

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#get #nowhere #progress #reliance #secret

If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#advantage #am #athens #capable #course

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers. ↗

— Pat Brown

#catches #doing #fine #investigators #killers