#roc

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#complex #find #first #first things #get

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#commitment #durable #durable peace #environment #message

Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#most #rock #rollers #write #writers

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person. ↗

— Jay Kay

#get #hard #i #i think #ladies

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? ↗

— Boethius

#cometh #evils #god #good #many

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#bends #considered #find #i #me

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere. ↗

— David James Elliott

#always #attacks #became #break #break up

Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#day #england #every #had #hours

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#along #came #few #incredibly #making