#real

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#effective #institutions #international #international institutions #like

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#connecting #dead #even #give #kind

Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#been #better #define #democrats #effort

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head. ↗

— Steve Vai

#cool #doing #everybody #go #head

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#car #corner #could #even #going

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#adventurous #change #embrace #exciting #familiar

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#difference #glorification #indulge #justification #life

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#based #experience #ideas #live #mind

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destiny #dreams #faith #faith-in-god #faith-in-yourself

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#court #directors #east #government #great