Stability Quotes - Page 22

• For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

  George W. Bush

  Names, Long, Community

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor would any major war in which Britain was involved after this date end in defeat. Those who are curious about this country's peculiar social and political stability probably need look no further than this for essential cause.

  Linda Colley

  Country, War, Political

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• Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

  Sebastian Junger

  Suicide, Stress, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

  Esther Perel

  Passion, People, Realist

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you anymore. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

  Donny Osmond

  Mean, Important, Deities

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• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Iraq

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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• Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Attachment, Bitterness

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

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• Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Breathing, Understanding, Development

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You Are Alive!”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife.

  David Cannadine

  Stress, Thinking, Shadow

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• All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.

  Ariel Sharon

  Years, Together, Dangerous

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• This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that works, that is just right for the likes of us? It has not happened just instantly. It is vulnerable to our actions. But it's the result of four and a half billion years of evolution, of change over time. And it changes every day, all the time. It would be in our interest to try to maintain a certain level of stability that has enabled us to prosper, to not wreck the very systems that give us life.

  Sylvia Earle

  Years, Giving, Trying

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility of two thing being in the same location (place). The law of the 'proper' rules in the place: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each situated in its own 'proper' and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability.

  Michel de Certeau

  Taken, Order, Law

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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• Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

  Shana Alexander

  Fashion, Song, Art

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• [On Russia:] In every way, there is something gigantic about this people: ordinary dimensions have no applications whatever to it. I do not mean by this that true greatness and stability are never met with; but their boldness, their imaginativeness knows no bounds. With them everything is colossal rather than well-proportioned, audacious rather than well-considered, and if they do not attain their goals, it is because they exceed them.

  Madame de Stael

  Mean, Greatness, Russia

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• I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

  Ellen Goodman

  Home, Imagination, Plot

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Order, Arena

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• Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

  Bill Vaughan

  Independent, Iraq, May

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• Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Engineering, Connections

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• Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.

  Hyman Minsky

  Unstable, Crisis, Stable

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• There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

  Khaled Mashal

  Long, Occupation, Aggression

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• Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

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  Ram Dass

  Mean, Being In Love, Love Is

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• One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fairness, Financial, Taxes

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

  Ben Bernanke

  People, Gold, Standards

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• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Important, Employment

  "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress". www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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