#nth

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#activities #always #focus #going #had

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#enthusiasm #everything #ideas #perseverance #real

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#done #driver #ed #forget #got

So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#around #bunch #definitely #eight #had

I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#apple #appreciate #back #better #doing

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#further #generates #go #great #great idea

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things. ↗

— Jane Asher

#also #book #come #complete #illusion

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mend #month #next #sure #things

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#four #go #into #kimonos #layers