#statement

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. ↗

— Elihu Root

#countries #country #declaring #everything #extreme

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #authority #because #being #believe

I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for. ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#christian-living #christianity #christians #love #mission-statement

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements. ↗

— Zola Budd

#african #feel #i #make #need

These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear. ↗

— Frank Iero

#days #everybody #fear #having #hear

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#best #everybody #foot #forward #i

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#animal #animals #cruelties #cruelty #fashion

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#alive #basic #because #being #compose

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so. ↗

— Peter Hain

#already #around #confident #credible #fein