#ola

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #appeal #countries #desperation #emergencies

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#certain actors #had #honored #i #idolatry

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#after #answer #between #chocolate #conversation

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#begun #cannot #follow #hope #i

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

#desires #diligent #himself #love #loves

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#child #creation #himself #importance #isolates

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#before #beside #connection #else #everything

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #greatest #isolate #limit #oneself

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. ↗

— Al Gore

#before #cap #continental #disappearing #entire

Isolation is a self-defeating dream. ↗

— Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#isolation #self-defeating