#try

I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#against #better #corruption #country #deliver

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country. ↗

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

#catch #circumstance #country #form #get

We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others. ↗

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

#everybody #fair #got #ground #groups

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other. ↗

— Irving Ravetch

#i #i always #interpreted #law #lean

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. ↗

— Prem Rawat

#been #gift #given #greatest #inner

I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline. ↗

— Amy Ray

#different #different things #discipline #down #going

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. ↗

— Herbert Read

#balance #efficiency #forms #general #greatest

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#imagination #labor #manual #manual labor #poetry

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. ↗

— Jack Reed

#country #crisis #extraordinary #iraq #men

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#bourbon #churches #corporal #could #country