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Paul P. Harris Quotes

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

Paul P. Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 19, 1868 - January 27, 1947

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Focus Thought Way Matters Agreement

Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn't mean that you can give up the fight.

Jesmyn Ward

Fight Tired Think Fighting You Mean

Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we've been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan. But in a democracy, you salute.

John F. Kelly

Democracy End Result You Military

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

Michael Chabon

War World Think Place New Write

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Amy Poehler

Work Character You Down Write Out

It's really nice when the studio is behind what you're doing, because that's often not the case.

Sissy Spacek

I Am Me Things Well Just Worse

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

Rob James-Collier

Street Actor Again Before After

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

Mick Taylor

Music Sacrifice Why Never See Would

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

Minoru Yamasaki

Change Painting Think Furniture Wall

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Jean Cocteau

Handwriting Tie Up Again Differently

I think we have to be more forward-looking when considering any legislation dealing with technology.

Suzan DelBene

Technology Think More Legislation

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Thomas Frank

Promises Rhetoric Beyond Empty Get

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and a longing in your heart. This country was the breeding ground for the soul of the Jewish nation, and unfortunately, also grounds to the largest Jewish cemetery.

Reuven Rivlin

Heart Soul Name You Body Born