The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

David Lloyd George

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes, Pappus of Alexandria

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Garrison Keillor

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Paulo Coelho

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Helen Clark

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Dave Obey

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Jean Kerr

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Agnes Meyer

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

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There can be no substitute for a personal study of the Word of God! Daily devotionals, Bible commentaries, and recorded messages by anointed preachers and teachers are wonderful and useful. However, they cannot take the place of the Word of God. They must not replace a time of personal study of the Word. Every Christian individual must study and meditate upon the Word for him or herself. Nobody can do that for anyone else.

Pedro Okoro

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe