#tempo

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#alternatives #between #chose #contemporary #contemporary history

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fable #moral #story #temporary

While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent. ↗

— Ric Keller

#lands #national #our #permanent #pristine

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. ↗

— William Kempe

#background #ballet #ballet dancer #classics #contemporary

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#earth #man #nature #purity #simplicity

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#between #contemporary #contemporary life #i #i write

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be. ↗

— George Weah

#believe #come #control #country #democracy

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#expressed #expression #fact #final #follows

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#suicide #temporary

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#american #american culture #baskets #beads #contemporary