#shared

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

#commonly #experience #fire #happens #held

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends. ↗

— Josh Groban

#anyone #aware #few #friends #got

But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth. ↗

— John Hutton

#competitiveness #contribution #effective #european #european union

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#defended #illusion #life #life is a #much

If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared. ↗

— David Axelrod

#completely #consistency #consistent #governing #high

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. ↗

— John Bolton

#best #broadly #decide #done #instruments

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter? ↗

— Boris Becker

#build #child #daughter #does #hardly

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#economic #economic growth #financial #financial stability #global

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#african #always #dispossessed #hands #lead

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#course #did #endlessly #essence #friends