#plight

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises. ↗

— David Cameron

#across #care #get #going #got

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#because #creative #creative environment #environment #here

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#change #criticism #explains #interest #japan

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. ↗

— Julius Gordon

#because #brethren #burdens #grown #his

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#life #man #plight #time #life

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#different #different places #displacement #end #forced

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#also #comes #could #dealt #disasters

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#get #joblessness #jobs #most #often

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

#children #could #elders #every #fate

It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#hip #men #old-fashioned #plight #single