#unity

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#filmmaker #i #i think #kind #opportunity

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#distractions #age

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources. ↗

— Leon Krier

#community #design #architecture

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. ↗

— D.T. Max

#consensus #grammar #life

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#garden #give #good #grow #less

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. ↗

— James W. Black

#came #chance #college #establish #foundation

Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#highlights #incredible #incredible opportunity #life #me

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cannot #declarations #desired #doubt #into

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#declarations #desired #doubt #mere #no doubt

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold. ↗

— Artur Davis

#african-american community #barack #barack obama #black #community