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“Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.”

Country States Enough Winning United United States Havens Safe Als Afghanistan Stable Taliban Militant Measure Of Success Safe Haven

Author:Leon Panetta

“I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Kind Littles Persons Strong Creatures Normal Weak Nervous My Way Very Strong Stable Frustrating Breakdown Frail Weirdo Strong Person Nervous Breakdown Infuriating

Author:Kate Bush

“There's really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.”

Ifs I Can Feelings Would Be Goal Attitude One Thing Journey Achieve Losing Just One Steady Stable My Attitude Right Direction

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.”

States United United States Economy Design Lows Campaigns Massive Stable Consumption

Author:John Holdren

“The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”

“A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.”

World Mind May Wheels Steady Stable Hub

Book:Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

“Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.”

Looks Self Use Purpose Dies Creatures Sticks Flight Lifts Stable

Author:Frank Herbert

“Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.”

Self Turns Unexpected Consistent Stable Flexible Machinery Predictable Unexpected Turns

Author:Antonio Damasio

“The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.”

World Truth Truth Is Longing Stable

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.”

Ifs Hands Culture Tradition Strongest Stable Rapids Novelty Rapid Change

Author:B. F. Skinner

“My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.”

Humans Has Beens States Past Turns Half Theory Accepted Host Stable Organisms Viruses Institute Other Half Gangsters Sneer Smallpox Symbiosis Pasteur

Book:The Adding Machine

Source: The Adding Machine

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.”

“In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.”

Healthy Stable

Author:Fiona Apple

“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.”

Source: For Love and Money: A Writing Life

“If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.”

Ifs Stills Home Hands Government Dies Forever Succeed Foundation Democratic China Tyrants Stable Dictator Oblivion Live Forever Democratic Government

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that it will expire after a few billion more. . . . If we are wise, we will have furnished our new apartments long before that time.”

Ifs Knows Years Long Earth Wise Evolution Walking Moon Billions Stable Platforms Apartment Star Gazing Lease Evolution Of Life

Author:Robert Shapiro

“Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.”

Children Hands Your Children Prophet Stable Bows Arrows Raising Children Gladness Bending Archer Love Your Children Bows And Arrows

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.”

Source: Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy

“I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.”

Thinking Normal Ordinary Scare Mediocrity Stable Think Of Me

Author:Gillian Anderson

“If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.”

Ifs World Needs Children Home Parent Plenty Stable Adoption Loving Parents

Author:Joy Bryant

“It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.”

Two Growth Half Percent Stable Unemployment

Author:Ben Bernanke

“A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.”

States Causes Stable

Author:William C. Bryant

“I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.”

House Sides Office Lovely Stable Countryside

Author:Eoin Colfer

“I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.”

Needs Feels Mean I Can Play Wanted Careers Environment Too Much Right Now Pressure Very Good Stable Monaco

Author:Freddy Adu

“The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.”

Wells Form Political Order Social Interest Behinds Citizens Capable Organization Lays Property Favors Stable Promoting Social Order Federalism

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Able Concerned I've Learned Stable Unnecessary Saying No Stable Life

Author:Richard Chamberlain

“We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.”

Men Believe Children Shows Home Mother Father Common Study Raised Definitions Committed Common Sense Stable Committed Relationship

Author:Salvatore J. Cordileone

“No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now.”

Thinking Greater Bears Right Now Stable Disrespect Broncos Tebow

Author:Terrell Davis

“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.”

“Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.”

Thinking Country Force Poverty Effects Crime Direct Educated Our Country Stable Reducing Direct Effect

Author:Jane Fonda

“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.”

Problem Science Process Computer Solve Weather Despite Aspiration Application Stable Sensitivity Describing Unstable Von Neumann Meteorology

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.”

Values Bears Financial Fund Stable Currency Reserves Skeptical Federal Reserve Bail Hedge Fund

Author:Jim Rogers

“Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.”

May Seems Spiritual Fall Passion Health Ill Stable Good Health Liable Carried Away Spiritual Health

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.”

Two Country Interest Building Development China Productive Mutual Stable Two Countries Mutual Interest

Author:Hu Jintao

“I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.”

Wells Looks Kind Sometimes Might Actors Bits Easier Directors Horse Stable Bucks

Author:Rebecca Hall

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