Asuntos Internacionales Quotes & Sayings

Cognitive rigidities may also prevent social groups from mobilizing in their own self-interest. In the United States, many working-class voters support candidates promising to lower taxes on the wealthy, despite the fact that this hurts their own economic situations. They do so in the belief that such policies will spur economic growth that will eventually trickle down to them, or else make government deficits self-financing. The theory has proved remarkably tenacious in the face of considerable evidence that it is not true. — Francis Fukuyama

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price. — Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.
And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.
Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats. — Vera Nazarian

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time. — Tori Spelling

I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup. — Emmy Rossum

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy. — Horatio Nelson

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise. — Mary Szybist

How we can stay faithful to the people that have supported us from the beginning is a thought in my mind. I always want to keep that part of it alive. — Dave Matthews

Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture. — Robert Grudin

As we got closer to marriage, I felt completely confident that Gordon loved me. But I also knew somehow that I would never come first with him. I knew I was going to be second in his life and that the Lord was going to be first. And that was okay. It seemed to me that if you understood the gospel and the purpose of our being here, you would want a husband who put the Lord first. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself. — Portia De Rossi

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. — Tom Wesselmann

No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses. — Wislawa Szymborska

A book writes itself. You are just the hand that puts everything on paper. — Bangambiki Habyarimana