#tries

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it. ↗

— Clare Short

#bully #countries #going #pressure #vote

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. ↗

— Frederick W. Smith

#banking #business #idea #industries #innovation

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. ↗

— Peter Weir

#cinema #cycles #feeling #film #flagging

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#cease #commerce #contribute #countries #determined

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences. ↗

— Rick Yune

#american #because #being #countries #cultures

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad. ↗

— Roman Payne

#cities-and-countries #devotion #fickle #fortune #heart

It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia] ↗

— Simon Pegg

#pastries #princess-leia #star-wars #love

We say that we are rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We,their own lords, quarrel among ourselves, and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#death

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ↗

— James A. Michener

#consists #fourth #third #tries #you