#urgent

Sometimes, people just want to be happy even if it's not real. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#insurgent #life #life

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#insurgent #veronica-roth #acting

She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#logic

He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#four #insurgent #tobias #tris #body

Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am? ↗

— Veronica Roth

#strategy

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? ↗

— Wendell Berry

#enough #gardens #how #learn #most

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#city #i #i am #immediacy #living

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#central #dictators #find #insurgents #latin

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic #atomic energy #created #energy #existing

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#better #call #coherent #country #downgrade