#stability

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#central #countries #enjoys #few #independence

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#fail #financial #financial markets #global #good

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birth #breakdown #children #driving #family

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#institution #marriage #more #powerful #promoting

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women. ↗

— Kate Smith

#greater #loyal #middle-aged #middle-aged women #more

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#people #percent #stability #starving #want

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#between #bondage #contract #family #king

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life. ↗

— Artie Lange

#easiest #guy #i #i am #lack

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#balance

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality." ... "But they used to take morphia and cocaine." ... "Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178." ... "Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug." ... "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant." ... "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." ... "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." ... "Stability was practically assured. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#happiness #huxley #society #stability #immortality