“We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.” PeopleWayCountryCoursesInterestAchieveReadyConsiderationStabilitySyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Of course, when Secretary-General is objective, he can play an important role in dealing with different officials in the United Nations in order to bring the policies of the different states - mainly Russia and the United States - toward more cooperation and more stability regarding Syria.” ImportantDifferentStatesPlayOrderCoursesNationsUnitedRolesUnited StatesPolicyRussiaObjectivesOfficialsCooperationStabilitySecretarySyriaUnited Nations Author:Bashar al-Assad
“More and more people will now start realizing that we are actually equal to one another and that nobody will re-establish the balance or stability within this unless each and every one stands up.” PeopleRealizingBalanceEqualStability Author:Timothy Treadwell
“America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".” EndsSometimesEnoughAmericaCommunityEconomyStabilityMobileDynamism Author:James M. Buchanan
“You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.” PeopleWorldWayGovernmentCertainOrderGamesSpeakGoneRightsModernFiguresEasierPropertyDefinitionsSpendingGoodsContractsStabilityRegulationEnforcementModern WorldPublic ServiceProperty RightsGdpGovernment SpendingGoods And ServicesOptimalRules Of The GameRules And RegulationsOptimum Author:James M. Buchanan
“Let's not forget that for thousands of years the institution of marriage has been between a man and a woman. Until quite recently, in a limited number of countries, there has been no such thing as a marriage between persons of the same gender. Suddenly we are faced with the claim that thousands of years of human experience should be set aside because we should not discriminate in relation to the institution of marriage. When that claim is made, the burden of proving that this step will not undo the wisdom and stability of millennia of experience lies on those who would make the change.” MenShouldYearsHumansPersonsHas BeensMadeCountryLyingForgetNumbersStepsProveClaimsRelationInstitutionsBurdenGenderStabilityHuman Experience Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since 2014 despite the intense opposition of Netanyahu's Israel and its American loyalists in Congress, it would be widely perceived around the world as a huge setback in the search for regional stability and the struggle to prevent any further spread of nuclear weapons.” IfsWorldShouldWould BeStruggleHugeWeaponsProgramCongressIsraelSpreadNuclearIntenseDespiteAround The WorldOppositionIranStabilityCollapseNuclear WeaponsArrangementsAppreciatedSetbackLoyalists Author:Richard A. Falk
“One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education reform, they should also be interested in how they conduct themselves in front of their children. If they are homeschooling their kids, they are even more exposed, so the idea is even more important.” IfsShouldChildrenImportantIdeasHomeKidsParentFrontsEmotionalReformStabilityExposedAcademicHomeschoolingEducation ReformAcademic SuccessEmotional Stability Author:John Medina
“The remarks that [Steven] Lerner gave at Pace University: "'Unions are almost dead. We cannot survive doing what we do but the simple fact of the matter is community organizations are almost dead also. And if you think about what we need to do it may give us some direction which is essentially what the folks that are in charge - the big banks and everything - what they want is stability.'" So we have "'to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement'".” IfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingMayMatterFactsBigsCommunitySimpleMovementOrganizationUnionsUniversityFolksPaceStabilityRemarks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.” KindJusticeMiddleEastStabilityMiddle EastPalestinian Author:John Pilger
“I think there's a need for the participation of the military for the stability of the transformation period of Burma. If the military and the people do unite together for the sake of our country, we can reach the development of our country in a very short time.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsCountryTogetherMilitaryDevelopmentPeriodsTransformationSakeOur CountryStabilityParticipationShort TimeBurma Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.” WayHelpingFacesGrowthChallengesEconomicMajorsLegacyStabilityEconomic GrowthEraseMarginalizationChallenges We Face Author:Shakira
“I always wanted to be acting but...my parents (who are Cambodian) wanted me to be something else with more stability, like a doctor or lawyer. My heart wasn't in that and I'm really glad I followed my heart.” HeartWantedParentActingMy HeartDoctorsLawyerGladStability Author:Ellen Wong
“I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated, where women are assuming new roles, where young people want to be consulted and participate. I think the trick is to open up, move down the path of reform, do it in a way that is consistent with your own society's stability and culture, and just don't think you can do nothing.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantTogetherMovingYoungCultureCan DoRolesPathAssumingTricksReformConsistentFlatsStabilityStatus QuoIntegrated Author:Thomas Friedman
“There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.” DonePoliticalEnergyConnectionsClimateAwakeningStability Author:Thomas Friedman
“Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.” WorldDifferentAgeFacesChallengesLinesOur LivesRiskChildhoodSecurityCoupleFinancialDecadesEmploymentUncertaintyRetirementStabilityIntroducingElusiveDifferent WorldsInstabilityMacroeconomics Author:Alan M. Taylor
“At present, the United States, with over 700 foreign military bases, navies in every ocean, a programme to militarise space, and drone bases planned for all regions of the world, is increasingly perceived in relation to its hard power diplomacy, a threat to political independence and stability for many countries.” WorldCountryHardStatesPoliticalSpaceUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryOceanBasesRelationIndependenceThreatRegionsStabilityDiplomacyNavyProgrammesDronesMilitary BasesPolitical Independence Author:Richard A. Falk
“Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They would have said, "Look, horses have been part of human existence for 5,000 years. We are horse people. It's permanent." But all of a sudden, the internal combustion engine comes along and, with it, oil fields and automobiles, which basically replace the horse completely. So we often have these long periods of stability and then a sudden inflection point.” PeopleYearsHumansLooksLongHas BeensSaidHardCareExistenceExampleFieldsRevolutionPeriodsHorseOilPermanentInternalsStabilityEnginesFavouriteTechnologicalAutomobileHuman ExistenceCombustionOil Field Author:Reed Hastings
“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.” HumansWellsMeanLongImportantCountryLawThreeTermForgetRightsEconomicSecurityDevelopmentHealthyActivityBuiltThirdsDemocraticHuman RightsStabilityProsperousRule Of LawGood HealthPillarsDemocratic SocietyEconomic Development Author:Kofi Annan
“There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.” KnowsWorldIdeasCharacterArtistBeliefInterestingViewsAttitudeBreakMaterialsElementsNormalPerceptionPoint Of ViewAtmosphereFilmmakerLogicalStabilityMy AttitudeInstabilityPerception Of The World Author:Albert Serra
“I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.” ThinkingPersonsIntellectualPursuitStabilityEsoteric Author:Elaine Equi
“We can't have extraordinary dynamism, innovation, and change in the economy and expect to have predictability and stability in our personal lives. It's not as if there are these big, giant institutions existing between us and the economy. In fact, these institutions have become tissue-thin. There is no mediation anymore. We are the economy; the economy is us.” EconomyInnovationExtraordinaryStabilityPersonal LifeMediationPredictability Author:Robert Reich
“If we're concerned about volatility of earnings because we want some more stability in our lives, then let's create, instead of an unemployment insurance system, an earnings insurance system that will moderate the volatility for a certain period of time until we get back on our feet.” ConcernedStability Author:Robert Reich
“Let's all recognize that, in a world full of disgusting dictators, Bashar Assad maybe ranks at the top. This is a guy, in order to hang on to power, has allowed 400,000 people in his own country to be killed and millions to be displaced. Our goal, long term, has got to work with countries around the world. We cannot do it unilaterally. We've got to work with countries around the world for a political solution to get rid of this guy and to finally bring peace and stability to this country, which has been so decimated.” PeopleWorldLongCountryPoliticalGuyGoalTermSolutionsLong TermStabilityDisgustingDictator Author:Jake Tapper
“The quest for stability or homeostasis is silly. We should accept that we live on an incredibly dynamic planet in a rapidly changing environment, and do our best to have the most amazing experiences we can.” AcceptingEnvironmentSillyStabilityMost Amazing Author:Brad Feld
“Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.” EffortDemocracyStability Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Acting is a career without a safety net, because it's not like a professional job where every year you hope to be promoted, and get a sense of career stability. There is never any stability in this business.” ActingSafetyStabilitySafety Net Author:Naomie Harris
“Climate change is there as a reminder that we can get richer and safer societies that are also consuming more and more to the point where the stability of Earth's systems is being challenged at potentially catastrophic levels. I don't think we can stop that. Just the very same worries I have about prediction on the positive progressive side - I mean, predictions that say we'll be great, we'll be fine - also apply to predictions that are too catastrophic. I'm not sure we get those predictions right either.” ThinkingMeanWorryClimate ChangeNot SureProgressiveStabilityGet Rich Author:Sheila Jasanoff
“I didn't feel like I belonged with my mom. And I didn't feel like I belonged with my dad. Since they were separated, I kind of felt like I didn't belong anywhere. So my grandparents gave me that stability, gave me the feeling like I had something and I came from some place.” KindFeelingsMomDadMy DadMy MomStabilityGrandparent Author:Willie Herron
“Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.” CountryVoteNervousStabilityEuropean UnionInstabilityNotorious Author:Matteo Renzi
“It's important that we keep our priorities straight. And we believe that the first priority is the defeat of ISIS. That by defeating ISIS and removing their caliphate from their control, we've now eliminated at least or minimized a particular threat not just to the United States, but to the whole stability in the region.” BelieveImportantThreatDefeatPrioritiesStability Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“We look forward, from what we heard from President-elect Trump, a clear vision related to the conditions and the challenges in the Middle East. And there's a great deal of parallelity in that vision related to how we can eradicate terrorism, how we can regain stability in the region.” ChallengesVisionTerrorismStability Author:Sameh Shoukry
“I think the issue that concerns us is certainly regaining stability, but issues of human rights are an integral part of our reform policies, of our new constitution.” ThinkingPolicyConcernConstitutionHuman RightsStability Author:Sameh Shoukry
“Exchanging of unfriendly statements, rejecting any possibility of cooperation and interaction in combating terror, especially in Syria and so on and so forth. So it's not something that contributes to global stability and security.” SecurityPossibilityTerrorCooperationStabilitySyria Author:Dmitry Peskov
“Russia has never been an aggressor. Russia has always been a country contributing to global stability and security. A country heavily involved in combating terror.” CountrySecurityTerrorStability Author:Dmitry Peskov
“The U.S. military today garrisons the planet in a fashion without historical precedent. Successive administrations, regardless of party, justify and perpetuate this policy by insisting that positioning U.S. forces in distant lands fosters peace, stability, and security. In the present century, however, perpetuating this practice has visibly had the opposite effect. In the eyes of many of those called upon to "host" American bases, the permanent presence of such forces smacks of occupation. They resist. Why should U.S. policymakers expect otherwise?” EyeTodayPartySecurityMilitaryFashionPolicyHistoricalJustifyStabilityHostSmack Author:Andrew Bacevich
“Our allies expect not only a commitment to democratic values from us, leadership on those values, including respect and equality and - but they also expect stability. They expect knowing that the president of the United States is not set off by petty arguments and easily slings invective. That leads you down a really, really bad path.” ValuesPresidentPathCommitmentArgumentDemocraticStability Author:Bridget Johnson
“For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to a dangerous resurgence of political movements in the fascist genus, representing an alternative way of managing the state of the capitalist system, opposed to liberal democracy.” TogetherPoliticalDemocracyEconomicDangerousCapitalismCrisisStabilityCapitalistPersistentStagnation Author:John Bellamy Foster
“Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone. It meant knowing you are property that could be sold to the highest bidder, of value only to continue to support the plantation economy.” ChildrenTogetherValuesSupportEconomyOur ChildrenPropertySlaveOur FamilyYour ChildrenStability Author:Colson Whitehead
“Getting too much money too soon can be really bad. There's a balance to be kept - the right balance between new experience and a certain stability in one's life. I'm conscious of all these things in a way that, earlier on, I was only conscious of circumstantial stuff, like, money.” BalanceConsciousStability Author:Geoff Dyer
“Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.” LoveChildrenAgeHumanityWifeSocietyTaughtHusbandCommitmentWelfareStabilityHusband And WifeHusband Wife Author:Jack Kingston
“In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.” PeopleThinkingGivingSometimesEnoughDifficultAudienceSingingSafetyTrackStabilityExpectingSafety Net Author:Mariah Carey
“The United States is the lone superpower of the world. We have a stake in Rwanda's success because we have a stake in the world's stability.And we have got to understand the need for a paradigm shift. This is not about "might makes right." This is about a democratic movement that pulls out the voices of all of the people so that they come up with a fair and healthy and stable and sustainable society. And if we can learn those lessons in a place like Rwanda, then we can apply them around the world.” PeopleWorldHealthyDemocraticStabilityParadigmSuperpowerLoneParadigm ShiftRwanda Author:Swanee Hunt
“I'd like to see stability and a unified Iraq. A young democracy will provide the stability we look for. I will tell you that if we just isolate ourselves from the Middle East and hope for the best, we will not address the conditions that had led young suiciders to get on airplanes to come and attack Amerika in the first place.” DemocracyStabilityAirplaneHoping For The Best Author:George W. Bush
“The Syrian people will never forget those who extended their hand to help them rid of their dictatorship. The Syrian people also would love to be friends with all nations. I think the new Syria will contribute greatly to the return of regional stability and the birth of common development with Arab nations and the region. The only exception is those countries that still harm the Syrian peoples and take some of their rights. We are looking for a region where cooperation, prosperity, and peace flourish.” PeopleThinkingCountryHelpingForgetCommonBirthProsperityExceptionNever ForgetCooperationStabilityDictatorshipSyria Author:Burhan Ghalioun
“I like the stability, the continuity of having a lifestyle where I know I can pay my rent at the end of each month. And also I have these children that I am raising and it's nice for all of us to sort of know that we're going to be in a specific place for a certain amount of time. I've never known that in my career. So I'm really quite grateful at this point that I get to have the sort of double existence and I can rely on both.” ChildrenExistenceNiceGratefulLifestyleRelyStability Author:Gabrielle Anwar
“The president Donald Trump has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. He also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of his nation.” CharacterPresidentSuccessfulBeing SuccessfulStabilityCompetence Author:Bob Corker
“One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.” TaxesPatientFinancialStabilityInvestorsFairnessTradingSpeculationDiscouragingHoodRobin Hood Author:Robert Pollin
“During the Reagan eighties, the idea that money was a good thing - it was good to be rich; that wealth was a reflection of your character. We see this today in perceptions of Donald Trump: the idea that money is an expression of success and even goodness. I compare that with my dad's generation, where the American Dream was about giving your kids a better life, but not just in material terms. The American Dream was also about doing something good in the world. The home was at the center of the dream, but home also represented community, shelter, and stability for your family.” WorldGivingCharacterHomeDreamKidsTodayTermCommunityWealthRichGoodnessPerceptionReflectionGood ThingsCompareOur FamilyStabilityAmerican DreamBetter Life Author:Lauren Greenfield
“There is not one person who can fulfill all your needs. You may choose a partner who is your intellectual equal, and he may not be your most compatible sexual partner. And then there's the duality between security and adventure. A relationship that gives you plenty of novelty, and adventure, may not provide the stability you long for. Time, continuity and familiarity with somebody gives you other things in life but won't necessarily give you the kind of intense lustful experiences that you may have when you first meet someone and are curious about penetrating the mystery of them.” GivingKindLongMysterySecurityAdventureEqualIntellectualIntenseCuriousPlentyStabilityFamiliarityDuality Author:Esther Perel