“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.” PeopleWorldHeartCountryThreeLeftNationsVisionPovertyWonderfulBrokenDevelopmentEconomicsThirdsAidsCyclesMassiveCategoriesDividedTrappedRescueHelplessDominantViciousProsperousTaxpayersOrthodoxyThird WorldHeartlessThird World CountriesForeign AidVicious CyclesCycle Of Poverty Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.” YearsLongThreeChristWonderfulTreeCenturyFoolThousandDiseaseWesternWoodsSavedForestsFloodThousand YearsTempestDroughtAvalanchesRedwoods Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.” ThreeTeacherWonderfulJudgmentApproachCriticsEnglishmenInfallibleColossalFrenchmen Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.” HandsThreeAudienceWonderfulFrontsMonthsSixCommitmentTheaterWonderful ThingsSix MonthsThree Months Author:Treat Williams
“Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.” MenTwoThreeCan DoFourWonderfulHundredArmyChecksUrgesPoundsWonderful ThingsWhipsFierySass Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.” HardThreeWonderfulDown AndEntertaining Author:Stephen King
“Any kind of writing that's meaningful becomes hard work, so there were times when it would really flow, there were times when I'd get 10 pages a day, and then there were days when I would do three pages. Depends on the thickness of the material. If it's satisfying, it's hard, but it's pretty wonderful.” IfsWritingKindHardThreeWonderfulMaterialsHard WorkDependsPagesFlowMeaningfulSatisfyingThickness Author:Steve Guttenberg
“(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.” PeopleFeelsHomeEarthChristianTogetherJobsThreeHeavenFreedomRaceWonderfulMercyPrejudiceJewParadiseImmigrantsQuartersDescribingBrazilEnchantingCreoleSeventh HeavenMulattoes Author:Stefan Zweig
“I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil] Seuling's conventions for something like three years in a row from '70 to '72 and I remember at the '72 luncheon with the Academy of Comic Book Artists and talking with John Romita about the kind of brushes he used. Pros ask pros the same questions that fans do. "What kind of pens do you use? What kind of brushes do you use?" I was so amazed that the wonderful work John Romita was doing was accomplished with a Windsor-Newton series 7 Number 4. Not a 2 or a 3, but a 4.” PeopleWayYearsKindBookUseRememberUsedArtistThreeAsksNumbersTalkingWonderfulFansMetsLuckySeriesComicAccomplishedPensThree YearsConventionsComic BookAmazedBrushesAcademyNewtonWindsorNumber 4 Author:Mike Royer
“In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.” HomeSchoolThreeStrongParentMemoriesMorningWonderfulInfluenceHigh SchoolMy FamilyTwentiesClockAfternoonMilkCowsEvery MorningBarnsWonderful Memories Author:Billy Graham
“Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.” WayThreeWonderBoysWonderfulMathematicsCome UpDividesTricycles Author:Earl Wilson
“Isn't this a wonderful country? I was in Florida. I'm staying at a motel called the Three Palms. It's run by a middle-aged couple, one of whom is missing a hand. OK! That's what I thought, too! But they got upset when I asked.” CountryHandsRunningThreeWonderfulMiddleMissingCoupleUpsetStayingFloridaPalmsMiddle AgedMotels Author:Emo Philips
“When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.” FirstsTwoStatesKidsMotherThreeFeltEasyWonderfulHappenedCrazySonMonthsMereDepartmentMy SonSecretaryWonderful ThingsAssistantsThree MonthsBreastfeedingBalancing Act Author:Susan Rice
“Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.” ThinkingSeemsUsedThreeWonderfulSwearingCursingThree WordsCurse Words Author:Ernest Borgnine
“I've gotten to the point where the label of "best friend" is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world. I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to. There's Jennifer [Stone], my friend Ashley, and Taylor, and my two cousins.” PeopleIfsWorldPersonsI CanTwoWholeThreeFiveWonderfulMy FriendsStonesRidiculousWhole WorldLabelsCousinPeople In Your LifeJenniferAshley Author:Selena Gomez
“I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.” PeopleEnoughBeautifulThreeNextBornSpaceWonderfulBuildingReadyGeniusFlightDesertFortunatePrizeSpaceshipsWeird PeopleMojave Author:Richard Branson