#toward

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#close #communities #company #down #employees

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#against #chosen #gaza #hamas #instead

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#body needs #choose #develop #did #dietary

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century. ↗

— John Hutton

#better #building #century #challenges #contributes

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. ↗

— Rollo May

#choose #freedom #human #human freedom #involves

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#accommodate #edges #give #group #most

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy. ↗

— Mark Poster

#attention #dangerous #deflect #effective #enemy

The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it. ↗

— Leopold Zunz

#first #first step #liberty #miss #second

Choose your own attitude. Don't let another choose it for you. ↗

— Susan Gaddis

#attitude-toward-life #attitude

I have come, more and more, to believe that the way we are in the world actually has an impact on the world. When we are respectful, joyous, grateful, engaged, the world responds to that in concrete ways. When we are angry and resentful, or selfish or bitter, things sour around us. ↗

— Alan S. Kesselheim

#happy #positive-thoughts #age