The state of Israel proved that it is willing to make painful concessions in order to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians, ... I call on the Palestinian leadership to show determination and leadership and to eliminate terror, violence and the culture of hatred from our relations.
Custom & Convention Quotes (2326 Quotes)
We were delighted to find out that here was someone in the US who was exploring the same themes as us, in terms of diaspora, culture, cultural negotiations and identity.
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
We've steered to the idea that the Contemporary is a convention resort.
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
Our goal is to build a culture of workplace safety in Arizona.
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
People will point the finger at the U. S. and go on about those wacky Americans and their wacky gun culture. That is a real easy way of diverting attention from the real problems the gang culture presents.
It goes beyond connecting families. It's about preserving our culture, something corporate radio won't address.
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.
I think that Griffin's view is that this is something that NASA should do internally. I really don't know how he views culture. It's a controversial area and there are legitimate positions all over the map on it.
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.
in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the Geneva Conventions, to the extent they are appropriate.
We were mercifully free of company politics and blame culture.
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
The trials in Mexico are without a jury. It's all on paper. There are no live witnesses, and they don't have the right to remain silent. And they're guilty until proven innocent. Their culture is so different.
You know, you go to Hollywood and work internationally, and just the little jokes no longer make you laugh. I was alienated from my own culture.
In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood
I've always believed that player development is absolutely crucial to a franchise, ... You can do some things with trades and free agency but you have to develop your own players. I think you've seen some of our young guys really improve the last couple of seasons. What we've tried to create is a culture of hard work and commitment and we've put a premium on working with our young players.
The movie examines the role of dreams and ambitions in American culture. It's about what's wrong with America and how close it is to what's right with America.
It's pretty exciting to go back and see part of my culture. It's going to be really great to go there, walk around and talk to people.
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
Those who landed in Rhode Island or Utah, I doubt will stay, ... But those in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Dallas or Houston are more likely to stay because it is not such an alien culture. And of those who come back, what will the mix be More African-Americans More whites You could argue either way.
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Many of the cars are made here in the U.S., and they're very much in the fabric of the culture here today, Any American make .....
Our organization hears from thousands of teens and young adults each year who are desperate for information and resources beyond the one-sided 'born-gay' message that saturates our culture.
Sometimes this behavior becomes institutionalized. It's a culture that gets established, and something very radical needs to be done like closing down and trying to start anew.
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
The wretched war had destroyed not only their country but all their presumptions of human self-regard. What a scant, foolish pretense was a family, a culture, a place in history, when it was all so easily defamed. And God was behind this.
The government wishes that all problems be solved through dialogue, ... We will resolve our differences on the basis of patriotism and according to monarchical culture.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
I've worked with students before who went off island for college and only were able to take it for a semester or so because they were in a culture shock. Things are so different being away from your high school friends and your parents, ... The shock is so great ... they come back home.
I think it's deeper than architecture. Design has taken on a new importance in life. The general population is paying more attention to arts and culture.
Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.
Culture is what is left after everything we have learned has been forgotten. It consists of a deepened understanding, a breadth of outlook, an unbiased approach and a heart that has deep sympathy and strength of courage.
The thing is, I am very connected to popular culture, I am. And I watch 'Will Grace' and I watch 'My Name is Earl' and I watch prime-time television a lot and every other joke is about pubic hair ... So I don't feel it's wrong to talk about that on the red carpet.
Australian kids could then grow up and love their own culture and not have to love Hollywood or Disneyland culture.
It's interesting to me that the questions assume that because I'm Asian-American and Pacific islander that I'm an outsider. But I'm not an outsider to the culture. In hip-hop, you either have something or you make way for someone who does. If you don't have it, step out and learn. I feel I've had to earn my stripes.
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
Higher paid employees represent the core of the institution. They have the best understanding of the company's history, its goals and its culture. They are there to guide the company and its employees. Companies generally have a greater amount of time and money invested in these workers.
In 'Vessel Works,' I am looking inward. In 'Lamp Totem,' I am looking outward and responding to the world I see. I look at time and technology, food, violence, and then at escaping the culture that we have created. They have an element of dark humor.
There must be appropriate tension between stories of real pain, loss and tragedy with those of resiliency, optimism and hope, ... It must give those of the culture a real sense of legitimacy and possibility, but also be a museum that is a lens into what it means to be an American, with a message that all of us are shaped indelibly by this African-American experience.
is a solid step in the right direction toward cultivating a culture that values human life and the rights of the unborn.
It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
It ranges from advertisements in youth magazines to outreach programs targeting kids, even trying to bring in women who are single parents and eventually get their kids in what is part of becoming, in essence, a youth gun culture.