Foxgloves Plants Quotes & Sayings

Rather than street crime, I argue that a better analogy is to voting. Having a high opportunity cost of time - resulting, say, from a high-paying job and a good education - should discourage people from voting, yet it is precisely those with a high opportunity cost of time who tend to vote. Why? Because they care about influencing the outcome and consider themselves sufficiently well informed to want to express their opinions. Terrorists also care about influencing political outcomes. Instead of asking who has a low salary and few opportunities, to understand what makes a terrorist we should ask: Who holds strong political views and is confident enough to try to impose their extremist vision by violent means? Most terrorists are not so desperately poor that they have nothing to live for. Instead they are people who care so deeply and fervently about a cause that they are willing to die for it. — Alan B. Krueger

Everyone went and had some turkey and cornbread dressing, and hot biscuits, and mashed potatoes running with butter, and when they prayed, they thanked God for the good fortune that had found their boy, who had sense enough to know that if you're going to be hit by a train, you have to go stand on the tracks in Memphis, Tennessee. Amen. — Rick Bragg

I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets — Gerry Spence

Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future. — Anne McCaffrey

Everything that we design is designing us back — Jason Silva

You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them — Mitch Albom

The Hitmen who came to assassinate him end up being polished for the better by their target — Yusei Matsui

My goal is to make you scream my name. Give me what I want, but make me work for it. — Olivia Cunning

He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed. — Francois Lelord

It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage — Laura M. Brotherson

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives. — Arthur Schopenhauer

He woos, he confronts, he delivers, he heals, he shoots straight, and then he uses intrigue. He lives out before them the most compelling view of God, shows them an incredibly attractive holiness while shattering the religious glaze. But still, he lets them walk away if they choose. — John Eldredge

That even now, even after all the years of dreaming, of wanting, she is not Tristan, and she is not Jill, and she is not anyone who can recklessly seize unexpected opportunities. — Nick Alexander