“I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it in Switzerland. And I'd had a bit of a late night with members of her band. And I was - my flight was delayed. And I was sitting in the airport, and I just came up with the idea. And by the time, we landed at Heathrow, I'd pretty much sort of got it.” WayIdeasDoneEnoughShowsNightFoundBitsTvsBandMembersLateSittingFlightTv ShowsAirportsDelayedSwitzerlandStaplesLate NightZurich Author:Nick Lowe
“Hillary Clinton met with a lot of the mothers in Chicago, she has the endorsement of some of the moms. Bernie Sanders I think has one or two of the family members too. I'm a little uncomfortable with using the families of these dead children this way.” ThinkingWayChildrenLittlesTwoMotherMomMetsMembersClintonUncomfortableChicagoFamily MembersEndorsements Author:Chuck Todd
“Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session).” WayKindIdeasUseClearTeamShareNeededMembersCreatingDiverseMultipleSessionInputBrainstormingTeam MemberDiverse Teams Author:David Livermore
“It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.” KnowsWayFormShapesMembersBlessedMy SisterFamily Members Author:Frankie J. Grande
“I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.” WayHas BeensJoyFoundTeamPrideMembersSatisfyingApplauseContributingTeam MemberStepping Back Author:Sara Bareilles
“Playing along with Guyland may be the only way an individual woman might believe she has a chance at a social life or a relationship. Sometimes it gets pretty crazy, like a sorority requiring that all the pledges sleep with the members of the "brother" fraternity.” WayBelieveMaySometimesMightIndividualSocialChanceSleepCrazyBrotherMembersPledgeSocial LifeFraternitySorority Author:Michael Kimmel
“People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.” PeopleWayAbleMovingMembersForgivingMurdererFamily Members Author:Ming-Na Wen
“I think the legacy was set because the way George Mitchell was the leader enabled Tom Daschle to be the leader he is. It carried on the spirit of integrity and of reform, of also working both with committee chairmen but bringing in the newer members to be able to have a voice and a say and participate in the deliberations, to always look at a modern way of doing it.” ThinkingWayLooksAbleSpiritVoiceLeaderModernIntegrityMembersReformLegacyTomsCommitteesChairmanDeliberation Author:Barbara Mikulski
“Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.” PeopleWayLooksCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedPartyUnited StatesObjectsMembersEuropeElectionActiveOther CountriesPassivePolitical PartiesSubmissive Author:Noam Chomsky
“The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"” PeopleWaySaidI CanWholeBeautifulHoursChurchImagineFrontsGoes OnBecomingMembersWanderOrthodoxAmerican WomanBeautiful YouTruth Of God Author:Andrew Solomon
“I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayChurchGreaterGayMembersToleranceExposureGay PeopleChurch Members Author:Andrew Solomon
“I think what Lawrence did was provide an assurance that gay and lesbian couples could live openly in society as free people and start families and raise families and participate fully in their communities without fear. And two things flowed from that, I think. One is that has brought us to the point where we understand now in a way even that we did not fully understand in Lawrence, that gay and lesbian people and gay and lesbian couples are full and equal members of the community.” PeopleThinkingWayTwoCommunityCoupleGayEqualMembersRaisesTwo ThingsAssurance Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other Member State. But the question we will have to ask ourselves is this: is that the very best future for our country? We will have to weigh carefully where our true national interest lies.” IfsWorldWayCountryStatesLyingAsksInterestMembersOur CountryBritainNational Interests Author:David Cameron
“The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration that Iraq submitted. Other members of the security council are studying the declaration, as is Unmovic and IAEA, and I would not make a judgment as to whether or not the declaration will be found deficient and whether or not that might lead to a material breach and whether or not, if it did, that would lead to action on the part of the United Nations.” IfsWayStatesMightActionFoundNationsUnitedUnited StatesStudySecurityMaterialsMembersJudgmentIraqDeclarationUnited NationsCouncilBreachSecurity Council Author:Colin Powell
“My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a conservatory, but I always knew I would be in the pop world, because A) it was more fun and B) you didn't have to practice as much and you could go out more. But I immediately saw this opportunity to inject my material with these sounds that most members of my generation really didn't know about, so it was a great way to differentiate myself from the pack.” KnowsWorldWayYearsWould BeOpportunityFunSoundPracticeSawsGenerationsMaterialsMembersPopsPacksMy GenerationDifferentiateConservatory Author:Rufus Wainwright
“I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.” KnowsWayWholeFilmProcessRocksBrokenMembersVotePopsScoreVotingCategoriesMetalsAcademyBroken Down Author:John Petrucci
“Children are way more articulate, way more connected to their rights, and they want to be fully participating, empowered members of society but we have to release and we have to let go. We have to allow children to enter their self-governance and their state of empowered presence.” WayWantChildrenSelfStatesRightsLetting GoMembersConnectedReleaseGovernanceEmpoweredParticipating Author:Shefali Tsabary
“A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.” WayWishCreativityHealthyMembersConsensus Author:Ai Weiwei
“The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.” ThinkingWayGivingCoursesRealizingChallengesAbilityBlessingMembersImpactOur FamilyProductiveAccountabilitySerenitySobriety Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Since it took up office, the Commission which I lead has pursued a clear policy: we need less interference from Brussels when it comes to the things that Member States can deal with better on their own. That is why we no longer regulate oil cans or showerheads, but concentrate instead on what we can do better together rather than alone - such as tackling the refugee crisis or securing our external borders. Only in that way can we make people feel that Europe makes a tangible difference.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsStatesTogetherCan DoDifferencesDealsClearPolicyMembersOfficeEuropeCrisisOilBordersRefugeePursuedTangibleInterferenceTacklingRefugee CrisisBrusselsBetter Together Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWholeMomentsLawGroupsExampleCitizensMembersThreatDecentAbidingLegitimacy Author:Tony Blair
“"Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.” MenWayHumansKindRealityAbleSpaceWhiteClassKnowingGroupsShareMiddleQuietSafeMembersSafetyDeeperAccessMiddle ClassPrivilegedMarginalizedSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.” WayStatesCoursesInterestHeardSecurityThousandMembersEastAppropriateOrganizeExpansionNato Author:Vladimir Putin
“First, I would say, is ideology. I have never spoken to any member of these groups, not just ISIS, but also Al Qaeda, Shabab, etc., who wasn't driven by the ideology. Beyond that, a lot of people are wounded in some way - they've fallen out of society in some manner. All of the ones I've spoken to seem to have veered off course from lives we consider acceptable and successful. Of course, there are others like Osama bin Laden, who was a wealthy and successful businessperson.” PeopleWayFirstsSeemsCoursesSuccessfulGroupsMembersDrivenIdeologyFallenEtcWealthyAlsAcceptableWoundedIsisBin LadenAl QaedaOsama Bin LadenSuccessful Business Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi
“As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.” WayBelieveWantedFightingAchievePerspectiveGrewMembersFindingsGrew UpCommittedMinoritiesOutsidersEntrepreneurialPersecutedAchieving Success Author:Lewis Schiff
“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.” WayMeanLongCareClassMiddleTrumpProveMembersShotsConcernClintonWorkersMiddle ClassVotersLong Shots Author:Tamara Keith
“To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way back to the Buddha and that so many fantastic, really truly-realized beings have been ordained. Thinking of all those members, such a wonderful, exalted and holy order - I love the Sangha.” ThinkingWayHas BeensInspirationOrderWonderfulHolyBlessingMembersFantasticExaltedNunSangha Author:Tenzin Palmo
“The American Nazi party and the KKK don't really exist in a meaningful way. They may have an office or website. But they are not tens of thousands of members.” WayMayPartyMembersOfficeMeaningfulNaziWebsiteNazi PartyKkk Author:Tucker Carlson
“Along with church monies and the United Way, most of the others that I give the most to are organizations for which I have some personal connection in that they have affected family members; i.e., kidney, cancer, heart, and organ donation. My wife and I have also contributed to and been heavily involved with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah County.” WayGivingHeartGirlChurchUnitedBoysWifeInvolvedMembersConnectionsOrganizationCancerClubsMy WifeAffectedOrgansCountyFamily MembersBoy And GirlDonationKidneysUtahPersonal ConnectionOrgan DonationUnited Way Author:LaVell Edwards
“There was a time, with the Berlin Wall down, that [it looked as if] the UN finally could do what it was set up to do, the rivalry between the two camps would dissipate, and we could all co-operate. And then, of course, Iraq came and blew it all apart. These upheavals will always take place in the world, and the design and construct of the UN ideally should be such that it can deal with these upheavals, and possibly influence them, and survive and thrive, but it doesn't work out that way, because as an organisation we are so dependent on the same member states.” IfsWorldWayShouldTwoStatesCoursesDealsInfluenceDesignWallMembersIraqWork OutDependentThriveCampsConstructsBerlinOrganisationPlaces In The WorldRivalryUpheavalBerlin Wall Author:Kofi Annan
“The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.” WayAbleArtistLoversMembersBetrayalFamily Members Author:Madonna Ciccone
“They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.” WayStatesCareUnitedPartyUnited StatesMembersUnionsRussiaOne WayCommunistCommunist Party Author:Noam Chomsky
“I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.” IfsWayMeanDonePlayWantedPresidentLeaderAcceptingMillionsAchieveMembersIraqBordersPresident ObamaSyriaTurkeysBaghdadAssad Author:John F. Kerry
“I should also say that apart from the negotiations that are taking place within the WTO, we are ourselves involved in all manner of bilateral negotiations, or, if they are not bilateral, with the South African Customs Union and the European Union. All the member countries of the European Union have now ratified the agreement that we have with the EU and that opens up the EU market in various ways.” IfsWayShouldCountryInvolvedMembersUnionsSouthVariousAgreementCustomsSouth AfricaNegotiationEuropean Union Author:Thabo Mbeki
“It's amazing seeing all the people that have helped you get to where you are. All the coaches, all the camps. Your parents, family members. I mean everybody who's invested in you. And it's really - it's really neat to see that all of their sacrifices to help you have paid off. And that now you can continue to help other people along the way.” PeopleWayMeanHelpingParentSeeingSacrificeMembersPaidCoachesHelping OthersWhere You AreCampsNeatFamily MembersPaid Off Author:Mike Conley, Jr.
“It is completely irresponsible, if not worse, for members of the media to be calling our press secretary a liar and worse. On Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere. And in articles. That is not the way to start relationships with the press.” IfsWayMediaCallingMembersPressesLiarsArticlesElsewhereSecretaryIrresponsibleTwitter And Facebook Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I believe that the future for a more effective, more efficient way of approaching the challenges Europe is facing is going to be more properly and more effectively handled and seen through the member states.” WayBelieveStatesI BelieveChallengesMembersEuropeEfficient Author:Viktor Orban
“In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.” PeopleThinkingWayStatesWould BeIndividualWaitingMembersRedAppreciateBasesCrisisBlueCongressExtremesCampaignsMidstVotersSenatorsSeverePartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that define their members in terms other than same-gender attractions.” IfsWayTryingTermGroupsMembersGenderAttractionBest WayAscendancy Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“As a pastor, I have the opportunity every week to share the gospel publicly in a way that most of the members sitting in our church do not. However, that doesn't absolve them of the responsibility for reaching others with the gospel.” WayOpportunityChurchResponsibilityWeekShareMembersSittingReachingPastor Author:Mark Dever
“Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human weaknesses. And so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of Congress in order to pass his agenda. This time it's the other way around. Donald Trump does not have much of an agenda. Congress burns with this intense Republican agenda and so does Congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.” PeopleWayWantHumansDoeBigsHappensOrderPresidentTrumpRepublicanMembersWeaknessCongressIntenseAgendasPresidencyIndulgeSignatures Author:David Frum
“Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.” PeopleIfsWayWantGovernmentMightMovingCostSucceedMembersBottomBillionsBillionaire Author:Joe Quirk
“In Afghanistan, there have been a lot of teachers assassinated, schools are being blown up, girls are harassed and in some cases, attacked on their way to school. Even if the girls are able to get an education, they can dream big, they can think about how they want to become a member of parliament because they are now women members of parliament in Afghanistan, nobody is really sure how long everything is going to last.” IfsThinkingWayWantLongHas BeensDreamBigsAbleSchoolLastsGirlCasesTeacherMembersAfghanistanParliamentMembers Of Parliament Author:Deborah Ellis
“The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.” WayTryingChildrenWarPoliticalSidesGoneRichComedyCrazyMembersTragedyOur ChildrenCrisisHorribleGreekOur FamilyYour ChildrenFull LifeGreek TragedyTragedy And ComedyGone CrazyHorrible Experience Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Obama administration didn't have one person who had ever worked in business. Not one Obama cabinet member had ever seriously had a job, run a company, met a payroll in the American economy. And, as such, no way of understanding how business is done, from negotiations to any other aspect of it. In fact, people in Obama's cabinet were arrogant and condescending and looking down on those people as a bunch of shysters and a bunch of cheats and people that kill their customers and they're destroying the planet.” PeopleWayPersonsDoneFactsRunningJobsUnderstandingCompanyEconomyPlanetsMetsMembersAspectCustomersBunchAdministrationDestroyingArrogantCheatNegotiationCabinetsLooking DownCondescendingPayrollAmerican Economy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.” WorldWayMaySelfShowsGrowsBornGrowing UpEmotionalMembersRestraintRoyalIndulgenceEntitlementRoyal FamilySelf Restraint Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.” WayHumansProblemSpiritTurnsIndividualHuman BeingsCasesWorstDesignMembersFunctionSettingSettingsOne WaySoftwareBehaviourPacksSoftware Design Author:Jaron Lanier
“My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.” WayHelpingMembersDiedRaisesCharityInstanceSurvivingWidowsFamily MembersFirefighter Author:Denis Leary
“One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.” WayIdeasGrowsIssuesMembersStringsTake TimeQuartetsString Quartets Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'” WayWantDonePrinciplesMembersTablesWhat You WantNegotiationBipartisanConcessionsTed Kennedy Author:John McCain