#ric

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#air #america #back #come #conditions

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#administration #american #american people #difficulties #excuse

Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#again #american #american people #any #anyone

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#direction #ego #environment #evolution #fabric

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#eccentric #every #fear #now #once

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ↗

— Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #age

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#name-of-the-wind #patrick-rothfuss #wisdom #anger

First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills — against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. "Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#equality

I have something I need to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though." "That's sensible of you," I say, smiling too. "We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something." I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear. "Maybe I'm already sure," he says, "and I just don't want to frighten you." I laugh a little. "Then you should know better." "Fine," he says. "Then I love you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #humor #love #tobias #humor

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#eccentric #life #life