#ship

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#assume #friendship #i #i think #instantly

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#censorship #charity #end #home #like

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#almost #between #conflict #connection #decades

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#leadership #our #party #underway

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#anyone #ever #existence #i #most

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#am #behind #championships #even #few

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership. ↗

— David Vitter

#help #international #leadership #louisiana #need

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #books #create #form #i

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#concept #even #feeling #i #i can