“Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.” WayGivingCountryProblemPresidentEconomicFindingsPermanentSovietScarcityDeprivationSurplusAmerican President Author:Elie Abel
“NRTC is pleased with our preliminary agreement and we look forward to working with SES AMERICOM, as it develops the exciting, new IP-PRIME platform, .. NRTC is focused on finding telecommunications solutions that are ideal for rural communities and working with our membership to make those solutions a reality across the country.” LooksCountryRealityCommunityFindingsSolutionsIdealsExcitingFocusedAgreementPrimePlatformsMembershipTelecommunicationsRural Communities Author:Bob Phillips
“These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.” PeopleWayWritingTwoCountryGivenSecretRiskMiddleTerribleFindingsShadowThirdsConstitutionElectionMajorityIraqEastDecentVotingOverwhelmingMiddle EastPreparingIndicationUnfoldingInsurgency Author:Fouad Ajami
“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanCountryFactsStoriesFeelingsMemoriesFictionHappenedFindingsDistanceDetailsVersionsBeing TrueConquerParadiseWildernessTransformedSad Story Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."” PeopleIfsWayMayLittlesCountryFactsBodyMightCarePrinciplesFindingsEvidenceConsequenceLet MeLaysEnormousTreatedI CareTemptedAdministrativeAdministrators Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.” MenWayHas BeensTwoCountryFeelingsPastInterestSeaFindingsEnlightenmentEnglandBlessedUnityFancyInjuryMutualIrelandTwo Countries Book:Memoir and Letters Source: Memoir and Letters
“I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock'n'roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.” PeopleThinkingCountryThreeSkyRocksMovementTelevisionFindingsMediumsBritainComing OutRock N RollPlatformsPhenomenalFunny People Author:Brendan Coyle
“To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?” MenHeartChildrenWarCountryInspirationJoyMovementFieldsFindingsLateFingersClubsCornersActiveFlightThreadSixtyCommitteesCompanionshipSeventiesEldersNeedlesChimneysNeedle And Thread Author:Laura E. Richards
“I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.” KindRealCountryTermVisionLandFindingsImmigrantsLiteralMigrationInvokePromised LandDiaspora Author:Anne Waldman
“The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.” PeopleShouldCountrySidesNew YorkFindingsDemocratResolutionSenateAmendmentsAdoptedNew York TimesGuantanamoFinding The OneDetainees Author:Peter King
“I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.” ThinkingWorldYearsBelieveLongCountryFacesUsedI BelieveKnownTechnologyFindingsWeaponsMassDestructionBasesTheaterThreatDevelopingRangeChemicalsCapabilityMissilesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationChemical WeaponsBiological Weapons Author:William Cohen
“It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.” KnowsCountryFunFindingsNobody KnowsBullish Author:Jim Rogers
“Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.” GivingBelieveMayCountryEnergyI BelieveProducePerspectiveSkillsFindingsPopulationEmploymentUnemployed Author:Joseph Hume
“People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.” PeopleBelieveMeanLittlesCountryMatterShowsCareTurnsWaitingInterestPracticeOne ThingWeekMonthsFindingsUniversalHealth CarePhrasesBritainCanadaSurgerySwedenUniversal Health Care Author:Thomas Sowell
“Turkey has in interest in finding agreement on more permissive visa requirements, it wants to be recognized as a safe country of origin and it wants to finally return to constructive EU accession negotiations. We Europeans decide all of those things together.” WantCountryTogetherInterestReturnSafeFindingsAgreementRequirementsNegotiationTurkeysConstructiveVisa Author:Martin Schulz
“Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.” CountryMatterDoneSidesElementsFindingsReasonableBoth SidesGreeceHumiliatedIntersections Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.” PeopleWayStillsCountryHelpingStruggleEconomyEconomicActivityFindingsDebtDeficitSpursBack To Work Author:Barack Obama
“What we should be focusing on - and finding solutions for - is ensuring that every American has health care in this country, no matter what level, no matter what age. No one should die because they can't afford health insurance. No one should go bankrupt because they can't afford it.” ShouldCountryMatterCareAgeDiesLevelsFindingsSolutionsNo Matter WhatHealth Care Author:Catherine Cortez Masto
“I guess Trump is joke-worthy more than ever because he's the president. I think Donald Trump being president is more about where the country is at as opposed to it actually being about Donald Trump. It feels like going to couples therapy and really finding out how your other half feels.” ThinkingFeelsCountryPresidentHalfTrumpCoupleFindingsJokesWorthyTherapyOther Half Author:Michael Che
“GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.” ThinkingBookCountryMightLyingGrowsEasyDifficultWaterHalfGoneClearMissingFoolFindingsStonesGreenArguingTricksDullRoughCherishWhere You AreWiserHighwaysYankeesHere And ThereHurryingNightfallClear Water Book:The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems Source: The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems