It Calling Solutions Quotes & Sayings

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold. — Billy Joe Saunders

We'd come to the same fork in the road I have seen scores of patients come to, the same place I'd seen Alice Hobson come to. We were up against the unfixable. But we were desperate to believe that we weren't up against the unmanageable. Yet short of calling 911 the next time trouble hit, and letting the logic and momentum of medical solutions take over, what were we to do? Between the three of us we had 120 years of experience in medicine, but it seemed a mystery. It turned out to be an education. — Atul Gawande

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired. — Laurence J. Peter

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions. — Peter Welch

In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing for harmonious living. Those who witness for, present solutions. Those who witness against, usually do not - they dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism and sometimes even name-calling. Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect — Peace Pilgrim

Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very pointed sound that gives a lot of poetry and emotion. — Richard Galliano

You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems — Sunday Adelaja

When you believe the truth about yourself, the truth that people are created to solve problems and overcome the limitations of their nature you make a name for yourself — Sunday Adelaja

The Ann Arbor superintendent ridicules what he describes as "simple-minded solutions [that attempt] to make things equal." But, of course, the need is not "to make things equal." He would be correct to call this "simple-minded." Funding and resources should be equal to the needs that children face. The children of Detroit have greater needs than those of children in Ann Arbor. They should get more than children in Ann Arbor, more than kids in Bloomfield Hills or Birmingham. Calling ethics "simple-minded" is consistent with the tendency to label obvious solutions, that might cost us something, unsophisticated and to favor more diffuse solutions that will cost us nothing and, in any case, will not be implemented. — Jonathan Kozol

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. — Sylvester Stallone

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie. — Chris Matthews

The armed forces knew he was a homosexual, that he was certain to fall in love with other fighting men, and the armed forces didn't want to put up with such love affairs. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else. — Ethel M. Dell

In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling. — Amy Dickinson

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking. — T.F. Hodge

Make correct conclusions from the negative solutions you have experienced — Sunday Adelaja

The man who is too captious, walks in the shadow of death, and on the verge of his sepulchre. — Joseph Hamilton

The Gaians sneered at the Zhore behind their backs, calling them pacifists, as if that word were an insult, but Lirzhan did not take it as such. A peaceful solution was always best, but if one did not present itself, then so be it. — Christine Pope