“We believe we can dramatically improve the way Medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it work for people with low income because it`s not working in so many states right now.” PeopleWayGivingBelieveStatesRight NowLowsIncomeGovernorsFlexibilityLow IncomeMedicaid Author:Paul Ryan
“You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The Europeans are negotiating from the position of "Please give up your nuclear weapons program, and by the way if you do we'll give you several boatloads of carrots." The Iranians are quite willing to keep on negotiating on that line for a long time.” IfsWayGivingLongLinesPositionWillingPleaseRight NowGiving UpWeaponsLong TimeProgramNuclearIranNuclear WeaponsCarrotsNegotiating Author:John Bolton
“If I'm fighting for the possibility of having a kind of desire and possibility, that right now is not too likely, it gives me a different kind of engagement with the future, than if I say, "sex doesn't matter; it's private."” IfsGivingKindDifferentMatterDesireFightingSexPossibilityRight NowGive MeEngagementDifferent Kinds Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I cannot take you out and say you are separate from the whole. If someone says to me, "Well, how do I find my life purpose?" I first say, "You've never lost your life purpose." Number two, I say, "Have no judgments about your life. No expectations. Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now."” IfsKnowsNeedsGivingFirstsWellsTwoWholeHappensPurposeLostNumbersTomorrowRight NowGiving UpJudgmentExpectationsAppreciatePurpose Of Life Author:Caroline Myss
“You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where would we be right now as a nation? If we'd stopped before Vimy Ridge, we wouldn't have been a nation at all. Yes, you've got to know when to say "stop" as a leader, you sure do, but you've also got to know when to push for the final thing that's going to give you the full benefit.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingFirstsHas BeensWarNationsLeaderAchieveRight NowBenefitsDifficultyFinalsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IStoppingRidges Author:Rick Hillier
“The fascinating thing about standard economic stories is exactly that: they assume that everybody wants that kind of closure. That all human relations are forms of exchange, because if everything is an exchange then it's true that we're both equals. We walk up, I give you something, you give me something, and we walk away. Or I give you something, you don't give me something right now, and you owe me. So if we have any ongoing relationships at all, it's because somebody is in debt.” IfsWantGivingHumansKindStoriesFormWalksEconomicRight NowStandardsGive MeRelationAssumingDebtFascinatingOngoingHuman RelationsClosure Author:David Graeber
“I'm a big potato chip girl. I don't like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I've got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can't give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!” NeedsGivingLooksBigsGirlCarRight NowGiving UpBeatsDamnBagsChocolateCakeChipsPotatoesYou Like ItDamn ThingsPotato Chips Author:NeNe Leakes
“There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.” IfsWantGivingI CanMatterGuyWinningChanceRiskWillingRight NowPreparedSkiing Author:Bode Miller
“For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'” MenInspirationalGivingSaidRight NowBasketballRoundsIronApplauseOliviaIron ManRobert DowneyRocking It Author:Olivia Munn
“Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.” GivingEyeBlackLinesTroubleFrontsRight NowStraight LinesBlack Eyes Book:The Goose Girl Source: The Goose Girl
“And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick." But when the two elder Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire opened the refrigerator, they found nothing that would help someone who was wounded, dying of thirst, or being threatened by a strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac.” IfsGivingMaySaidTwoImportantHelpingWould BeFoundDyingRight NowGive MeSticksWoundedThirstThreatenedEldersBasketsRefrigeratorsStrawberriesPokeManiacsBaudelaireQuagmire Author:Daniel Handler