Stability Quotes - Page 18

• There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Men, Role Models

  "Emma Watson, Beyonce, 23 More Stars on Embracing Feminism and Empowering Women" by Meena Jang, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 3, 2017.

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• Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Past, Night

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• Stability means you do what we say, and what we say is that Colombia and the resources of the Andean region shall be freely available to the rich and powerful of the world, particularly US-based multinational corporations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Mean, World

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Looks, Reason, Balkans

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never figured out that the key to financial stability was leaving felons in charge of the largest financial institutions in the world.

  William K. Black

  Keys, Years, Leaving

  "Too Big to Jail?". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. October 3, 2014.

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• It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos

  Focus, Political, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general

  Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

  Doubt, Democracy, Liberty

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• Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.

  James Inhofe

  Israel, Iran, Effort

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• We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Rights, Goal

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983”

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• We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

  Holland Cotter

  Beautiful, Past, Promise

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• You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Honesty, Government, Choices

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• I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, People

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

  Abigail Adams

  Perseverance, Fate, Order

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

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• By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

  Friedrich Engels

  Agreement, Civilization, Historical

  "Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works".

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• I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this meaning governed the way the world was. But it's an illusion to think that there are good and bad reasons. Grammar is a lie to make us think that what we say is connected by a logic that you'll find if you study it, a lie that gone on for centuries. Because I now know that life just lurches between stability and instability and doesn't obey any law.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Lying, Thinking, Law

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.143, A&C Black

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• I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Country, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Retirement, America, Foundation

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• Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Presidential, Littles

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.211, e-artnow sro

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• The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power for the Central Arizona Project. That means our entire state has a big stake in the energy production and economic stability of these plants.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Native American, Mean, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

  John Hume

  Respect, Peace, Rights

  John Hume's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1998.

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• Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

  Bill McKibben

  People, World, Poor

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and in bad and through presidents of both parties because the United States has a fundamental interest in Europe's stability and security.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Years, Europe

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.

  Pam W. Vredevelt

  Past, Live In The Moment, Mind

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• Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Return, Emotion

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• What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to attain stability. This is like the case of the fertile field, which cannot produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. Cravings and ruminations are the weeds of the mind; if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not develop.

  Zhang Sanfeng

  Weed, Practice, Long

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