#stable

The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster. ↗

— David Miliband

#being #biggest #bombed #both #conflict

Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist? ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#countries #democratic #despite #economy #enormously

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers. ↗

— Tom Peters

#comes #company #dandy #excellence #huge

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combination #felt #i #ideas #making

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

I am stable when my private life is a success. ↗

— Don Johnson

#i #i am #life #life is a #private

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#ample #been #block #far #hasn

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other. ↗

— Dan Savage

#attack #being #children #does #each

You know, musicians aren't very stable, in case you hadn't noticed. ↗

— Josh Silver

#hadn #know #musicians #noticed #stable

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#impersonal #integration #into #life #metropolitan