#ration

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#assault #away #bush #civil #civil liberties

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. ↗

— P. D. James

#detective #detective story #murder #order #restoration

Belief creates the actual fact. ↗

— William James

#actual #belief #creates #fact

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ↗

— William James

#alter #altering #attitudes #being #discovery

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#aspire #changing #earnestly #frame #itself

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#cheaper #corporate #devastate #feature #global

Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#best #best way #cherries #collaboration #encourage

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#financial #legislative #obama #obama administration #priorities

My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#administration #century #challenges #engage #ensure