#sever

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#along #biggest #biggest influence #bob #bob dylan

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#development #diseases #factors #focusing #health

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#character #definitely #either #even #fact

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#borders #compassion #continue #darkest #even

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#discouragement #distinguishes #impossibilities #obstacle #permanence

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea. ↗

— John Zorn

#calls #choice #go #got #gotta

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#backgrounds #because #behavior #careful #come

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#crude #delicate #finally #first #nature

I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#been #despite #done #getting #i

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#law #motive #pity #severity #softened