#stable

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#doing #europe #exercised #expand #foundation

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#cycle #fluctuations #inflation #lower #modest

When everyone just shook their heads, he unbuttoned his shirt and, oh good Lord, shrugged out of it, bunching it up to slip beneath her head like a pillow. Don’t look at him, she told herself. Don’t look— She looked. Sweet Jesus. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#hotty #irresistable #baseball

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democracy #form #fragile #government #long

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#economic #elusive #environment #improve #iraq

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. ↗

— John Barton

#exciting #experienced #inquiry #interactive #makes

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#further #impact #internal #matter #object

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#back #basis #community #different #economically

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#mistakes #only #stable #system #telling

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#been #both #disrespect #greater #i