Quotes of District - somelinesforyou

“ Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. - Soren Kierkegaard. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ I don't recognize my own neighborhood. ”

- Studs Terkel

“ Our long-term goal is to minimize dependence on fossil fuels, and we will get there by deploying a wide variety of new automotive technologies in our fleet. ”

- Robert Hall

“ It's been the fastest-growing population in the county and I think it will continue to grow. ”

- Jane Taylor

“ I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. ”

- Julius Caesar

“ For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force. ”

- Joe Slovo

“ The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ The world has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ”

- Lyndon Johnson

“ Well, it's a logistical nightmare,... We have identified other shelters in other parts of the state. Communities are ready to receive these people to help them out. ”

- Kathleen Blanco

“ I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there. ”

- Murray Walker

“ I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. ”

- Joseph Heller

“ In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie. ”

- Jay Gould

“ Territorial integrity of Russia can't be compromised. We won't give in to threats and blackmail. We will employ all means - all legal means - at our disposal to quell those who dream of taking away any part of Russian territory. ”

- Vladimir Putin

“ Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a "taxing-machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property… ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ If you look at the opportunities for economic growth within America, inner-city areas and rural areas, especially those that are heavily minority populated are a great opportunity for economic growth, because unemployment is high and the potential for consumer demand to grow is enormous… ”

- Bill Clinton

“ My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. ”

- Diane Abbott

“ Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. ”

- Carl Levin

“ You have your local city government and your community redevelopment agencies who will tell you that they want to take private property because they want to do away with blight, they want to upgrade the neighborhood,... I don't buy that. ”

- Maxine Waters

“ As far as I know, following the tragedies that led to 9/11, following the mistakes that were made on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, no one has been fired, no one has been admonished, no one has been demoted. (Former CIA Director) George Tenet fell on his sword, but as far as I know that's about it. ”

- Evan Bayh

“ In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. ”

- Confucius

“ Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. ”

- Rebecca West

“ There are only three ages for women in Hollywood — Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. ”

- Goldie Hawn

“ I've always said that if being a Democrat hurt my district I would switch or I would resign. ”

- Ralph M. Hall

“ Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. ”

- Dario Fo

“ A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse. ”

- John Ciardi

“ Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ”

- Bertrand Russell
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