#resent

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way. ↗

— David Icke

#being #child #come #coming #fears

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#could #danger #encouraged #felt #first

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#back #better #brings #chances #drivers

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#been #culture #history #i #latin

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#dignity #each #ensure #individual #lives

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back. ↗

— David Baker

#any #back #began #garden #get

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. ↗

— Joan Blades

#basics #better #common #common sense #common values

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing. ↗

— Matt Groening

#basically #doing #else #everything #i

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #being #clothed #derive #due