#hens

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#also #as far as #athens #concerned #escape

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#because #chair #day #education #even

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#basically #because #city #education #experience

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. ↗

— Maimonides

#alike #apprehend #apprehension #been #body

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. ↗

— Laure Manaudou

#any #athens #beijing #everybody #expectations

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension. ↗

— Joan Miro

#beginning #born #canvas #comprehension #feel

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#character #development #districts #ensuring #housing

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#false #imagine #man #may #only

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. ↗

— Alva Noto

#between #comprehension #emotional #i #intellectual

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.' ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cherish #comprehensive #creation #dared #education