“As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.” KindLongCountryTurnsAsksAbilitySuccessfulDisappearAll KindsGeographyVariablesEthnicityAbility To Adapt Author:Juan Enriquez
“Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.” KindWholeHouseWhiteRichTreatsCriticsBrilliantAll KindsBarackCourageousWhite HouseHostFrankInvitedTalk To MeCubsCub Scout Author:Cornel West
“Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in Jordan. I think a bombing campaign - I think it's hard to argue that a U.S. bombing campaign is going to cause less refugees. And I think it causes more refugees and more of a humanitarian disaster. I think it causes, or allows, the risk of Israel being attacked with a gas attack to go up, if we attack Assad. So there's all kinds of bad things.” IfsThinkingKindHardCausesChanceHalfMillionsRiskIsraelHumanitarianArguingCampaignsDisasterAll KindsGasBad ThingsFloodRefugeeJordanBombingAssad Author:Rand Paul
“Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.” PeopleKindRiskSecurityManagementInvestmentExpectedAll KindsManagersInvestorsBankersRisk Management Author:Robert F. Engle
“Listening to the data is important... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?” HumansKindImportantBrainListeningAmountModelsIntuitionMathAll KindsDataThought ProvokingHuman Brain Author:Steve Lohr
“Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for hard-and-fast rules or white-knuckle determination. Keep leaning forward into the positive changes you are making, and then apply that same gentleness to your family and community.” IfsWorldWayWantNeedsKindHardCharacterInterestCommunityWhiteInterestingQualityHealthyEatingIdealsDeterminationPatientAll KindsGentleOur FamilyVeganNew WaysGentlenessBe PatientRobustPositive ChangeKnuckles Author:Kathy Freston
“Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for example, give you ideas. I don't know if you've ever had an idea before, but, if you have, you know how much trouble an idea can get you into.” IfsKnowsGivingKindBookIdeasProblemCausesKnow HowTroubleExampleHarmAll Kinds Author:Pseudonymous Bosch
“My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."” ThinkingKnowsHumansKindChildrenLittlesSaidCountryWholeGodAgeBeautifulMotherThreeGamesSpeakHeavenAnimalCompanySkyLandWindAmountMountainRaisedEnormousAll KindsStreamsOne TimeThickFullnessRelationship With GodWild AnimalGroveAspens Author:Brooke Medicine Eagle
“In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.” WantKindGovernmentDependsSlaveAll KindsRegulationSocialistTaxationRestrictionAlliancesSocialist Government Author:Rafael Cruz
“There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.” PeopleKindAll KindsSolidarityDefects Author:Sri Aurobindo
“The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.” KindForcePureQuietAll KindsSincerity Author:Sri Aurobindo
“All kinds of indications will come from above and whatever you do must be referred to the Above.” KindAll KindsIndication Author:Sri Aurobindo
“After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.” ShouldMindKindMadeActivityEmptyIntuitionAll KindsIdleReceptiveWeaving Author:Sri Aurobindo
“I like all kinds of wrestling, I like pro wrestling, so if there's a guy I've been feuding with for over a year, and damn it, the only thing left to do is beat the crap out of each other in a steel cage, then it's time to do it.” IfsYearsKindGuyLeftBeatsAll KindsDamnWrestlingCrapSteelCagesPro Wrestling Author:CM Punk
“The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world.” WorldWayFirstsKindMeanIdeasTreeSpecialObjectsAspectPhotographDrawingAll KindsPerceiveImplicationsLoaded Author:Robert Barry
“I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. Listen, I live in a poor black neighborhood where women wear blue hair, green hair, and all kinds of stuff. So, I simply see it as a different set of choices.” ThinkingKindMayDifferentDesireChoicesStuffBlackPoorHairBlueGreenAssumingCarefulAll KindsNeighborhoodBe CarefulBlondeWigsWhitenessPermsBlue Hair Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than just have no opinion whatsoever.” PeopleKindOpinionTearsHairAll KindsKicksScreamBlasphemy Author:DJ Shadow
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.” PeopleIfsKindFacesResultsGayMarriedFinancialBurdenAbsenceAll KindsGay PeopleFinancial Burden Author:Andrew Solomon
“The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. If my brother gets hit by a car tomorrow, my sister-in-law will go on living materially in the same way that she does now. If the same thing happens to me, a great deal of what I have will go off to the taxman. That's because of one of, as you doubtless know, eleven hundred federal laws that favor marriage.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayKindDoeHappensFacesLawResultsDealsCarBrotherGoes OnTomorrowGayMarriedHundredFinancialBurdenAbsenceFavorsThings HappenAll KindsMy BrotherMy SisterElevenIn-lawsGay PeopleSister In LawFinancial Burden Author:Andrew Solomon
“Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].” KindTwoShowsSituationComedyLuckyDivorceAll KindsComedy Shows Author:Fred Armisen
“People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff.” PeopleKindDifferentEndsTogetherThreeStuffPiecesModernCenturyLocalsAll KindsDifferent ThingsTechnologicalPrinted19th CenturyArtisansRustic Author:Sebastian Clovis
“I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years.” YearsKindArtStillsLeftCompanyStudyTeachingNew YorkInvolvedTheaterUniversityAll KindsParisMinnesotaMimeSoho Author:Jessica Lange
“The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.” WellsKindMeanStatesHappensChristianTogetherCertainCausesLevelsStudyWallCatholicMeetingsIslamJewDisappearAll KindsConcertsHolocaustPopeProtestantsJerusalemSigningAnti SemitismPetitionsSynagogue Author:Elie Wiesel
“Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be considered a gradualist. He is not decreeing Sharia as the law of the land tomorrow. He’s making gradual steps to desecularize the country so it’s not a shock to everyone, doesn’t cause all kinds of panic in the western world and the Europe world. And ISIS might be growing impatient. Even though they’ve been allied over oil and Syria, ISIS could be growing impatient. Then they see the deal with Israel, and they say, “To hell with this.”” WorldKindCountryMightWould BeLawCausesDealsStepsHellGrowingLandTomorrowEuropeWesternIsraelOilAll KindsShockPanicSyriaIsisImpatientWestern WorldShariaErdogan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.” KindRealFilmSpiritLuckyDirectorsProjectsHollywoodDown AndAll KindsBeatenCrushedScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Daniel Clowes
“I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.” IfsWayKindMy OwnAll KindsCollaboration Author:James Franco
“Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another. You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love. I like this definition of love because it's not just for the romantic lovers out there but the love of a friend, a mother, sibling - all kinds of love.” KindFeelingsMotherLove IsWatchesLoversDefinitionsAll KindsAttributesRomantic LoveSiblingKinds Of LoveDefinition Of LoveExperience Love Author:Michael Adam Hamilton
“Personality wise, we are all kindred spirits. I've said this before; if we [with Mike Mangini ] ever went to high school together we would have been friends. He is just one of us! We felt that immediate connect.” IfsHas BeensSaidSchoolTogetherSpiritFeltWisePersonalityHigh SchoolAll KindsJust OneMikeKindredKindred Spirit Author:John Petrucci
“I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.” KindBookPaintingTechniqueTraditionalAll KindsFurnitureDecoration Author:Paul Smith
“Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.” FeelsFirstsKindMovingCertainNaturalBeatsInstrumentsAll KindsPlatformsHeartbeatGeneticsNatural Things Author:Q-Tip
“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.” PeopleWorldInspirationalKindIdeasOpportunityGivenChanceCollegeBasketballFinancialAthleteAvailableAll KindsCapabilityWorlds ApartBasketball Is LifePro Athlete Author:Michael Jordan
“The next Wall Street crash is just around the corner. The meltdown of the climate is coming. The wolves are at the door, all kinds of them. We need to stand up and provide the solutions that are there, that are affordable.” NeedsKindNextDoorsStreetsWallSolutionsClimateCornersAll KindsCrashAffordableAround The CornerMeltdowns Author:Jill Stein
“You can see exile as loss, and then it will be a loss for you. You can treat it as opportunity and then all kinds of benefits accrue.” KindOpportunityLossBenefitsTreatsAll KindsExile Author:Pico Iyer
“I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.” ThinkingNeedsKindBigsArtistPossibilityAll KindsWillingness Author:Sharon Salzberg
“My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition I am, the less "feminine" I look, and it has made me feel powerful on the track but self-conscious in the sack. That transformed for me as I let go of feminine ideals of all kinds, in work, parenting, etc.” FeelsYearsLooksKindMadeSelfBodySportsPowerfulLetting GoTrainingConsciousIdealsTasksCompetitionTrackAll KindsEtcFeminineTransformedSelf Conscious Author:Lauren Fleshman
“There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.” WayKindAddictionAll KindsSugar Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.” KnowsYearsKindSpiritualityTenAll KindsKabbalah Author:Lisa Rinna
“Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.” KindCommonBehaviorUniversalCommon SenseAll KindsJustificationTwistedUniversal Truth Author:Greg Saunier
“Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue.” KindFightingPowerfulKnownHealthyCancerAll KindsDamageMost PowerfulRadiationHerbsTissues Author:David Wolfe
“Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.” KindHelpingAll KindsAppsSmartphones Author:Melinda Gates
“Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.” WayKindSelfSometimesHelpingTogetherWaterDecisionRightsGroupsSelf HelpBirthHealthyCleanAll KindsDecision MakingSmall GroupsComing TogetherClean WaterSanitation Author:Melinda Gates
“A wrong understanding is interested in precisionism. That is it tries to say that the Bible can't be telling the truth if it says that Jesus was such and such a distance from some place or other and in fact the distance is off by 15% or something like that. There are all kinds of grounded figures and so forth.” IfsTryingKindFactsJesusUnderstandingFiguresDistanceAll KindsTelling The TruthGrounded Author:D. A. Carson
“So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.” PeopleWayWritingKindSometimesFormEffectsSpeechArguingAll KindsAwkwardRhetorical Author:D. A. Carson
“I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.” IfsKnowsKindDifferentShowsActionSocialGroupsSingingDollarsCharityFolksAll KindsCheerTroopsTicketsHeroinesReceptionTitheSocial Action Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me.” PeopleKindMovingCreationConsciousCloudsCoffeeAll KindsCupsWrestlingFrankElephantsCoffee CupZappa Author:Idara Victor
“Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do an hour of political comedy, it might be a little rough, sure. But I think if you're spending 10 minutes or less, and you're talking about - not necessarily [Donald Trump] but his supporters and the media coverage, there's all kinds of angles to explore. It doesn't just have to be simply, "This guy is crazy!" It's more about the idea of that kind of guy rising to the prominence he has, to actually become the Republican candidate.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesIdeasMightHappensPoliticalGuyGirlHoursTalkingComedyCrazyMinutesMediaTrumpRepublicanSpendingAll KindsCandidatesRisingRoughSupporterAngleThis GuyCoverageProminenceMedia Coverage Author:David Cross
“You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of political forces play a roll.” KindPlayMomentsFormPoliticalForceAll KindsPreparationRebellionCommunist Author:Vijay Prashad
“Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.” PeopleWayWantKindTwoStuffNaturalResultsEmotionEmotionalSceneStriveAll KindsOne WayNegotiationNegotiating Author:William H. Macy
“For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.” KindHas BeensImportantReasonDifficultTrackAll Kinds Author:Adele Logan Alexander