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Quotes About Establishing

When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes causing illness or death, the result is a zoonosis.
~ David Quammen
My view... was that something could happen during the credits that could help the film, so that the establishing shots aren't carrying the total burden.
~ Saul Bass
Where I know my strengths lie, for me, is establishing systems and protocols, finding solutions, and trying to push for results. The Senate is a great institution, but for me, it's not the role that best suits those needs.
~ Stacey Abrams
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
~ Gordon Ramsay
There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
That is the way things are weighed and disagreements settled — when standards are established. Philosophy aims to test and set such standards. And the wise man is advised to make use of their findings right way.
~ Epictetus
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Really what we've done is establish a tradition in Carolina of playing defense.
~ Sean McDermott
Defense of free markets is where we need to be when establishing a vision for national technology policy.
~ Marsha Blackburn
Reputation is a treasure to be carefully collected and hoarded. Especially when you are first establishing it, you must protect it strictly, anticipating all attacks on it. Once it is solid, do not let yourself get angry or defensive at the slanderous comments of your enemies—that reveals insecurity, not confidence in your reputation. Take the high road instead, and never appear desperate in your self-defense.
~ Robert Greene
Too many church leaders have bought into the myth that to clarify the win means establishing attendance goals and raising a lot of money.
~ Andy Stanley
His whole soul was enlisted in the cause and in contending for the rights of the jury and a free press, he considered that he was establishing the surest refuge against oppression.
~ Ron Chernow
In 1787, then, when Alexander Hamilton asked "whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force," that was the kind of question a scientist asks before beginning an experiment.
~ Jill Lepore
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
~ Brent Scowcroft
My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.
~ Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
Now I know of only two methods of establishing equality in the political world; every citizen must be put in possession of his rights, or rights must be granted to no one.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywhere else. It would be impossible to imagine men forever unequal in one respect, yet equal in others; they must, in the end, come to be equal in all. Now, I am aware of only two means of establishing equality in the world of politics: rights have to be granted to every citizen or to none.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
~ Cynthia Ozick
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
The political leadership is a significant spirit and defence of the armed forces of any state; whereas, the armed forces are a protective shield for them. Both are compulsory for each other, as the political leadership one point, and the armed forces a zero point, which becomes ten points. Otherwise, it stays one or zero, establishing nothing.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences.
~ Elena Ferrante
The ends for which we fight are changing from the hard objectives that decide a political outcome to those of establishing conditions in which the outcome may be decided.
~ Rupert Smith
You know the Knicks, they weren't a good team, obviously, when I got here and I just kinda wanted to be a part of rebuilding, establishing the culture here.
~ Julius Randle