Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.
Since 'Houston Kid,' I've got a pretty good track record. Before that, I wrote some hit songs, but I didn't come into my own until I was about fifty. Before that, I had bursts of talent.
Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it shares with other users, with advertisers, and with business partners?
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.
Odisha faces natural calamities almost every year. The assistance we get from the Centre is mostly for temporary restoration of infrastructure. We have to spend a lot from state's own funds to work for the long-term. This puts too much stress on our finances. Precisely for this reason, Odisha should be considered for special category status.
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.
I hate calendars, and after running my own online business for almost 10 years, I still don't have one.
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Despair has its own calms.
I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what's called in the press 'Obama's Army.' But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That's critical.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
