#them

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#each #every #every time #fact #fighting

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#archetypes #being #convinced #film #people

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#audience #consciously #course #energy #everyone

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#economy #exercise #expect #how #judge

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#geniuses #intellectuals #prevent #problems #solve

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. ↗

— George Eliot

#fibers #friends #how #knit #love

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#even #get #i #me #need

So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#only-me #people #walls #worlds #worry

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#better #days #get #government #had

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#better #days #get #going #governments