Quotes About Bettering Society

#1. Believers are expected to be involved in what Judaism calls tikkun-ha'olam, repairing the world. Tikkun-ha'olam is deeply embedded in the Jewish ethic; for this reason even secular Jews usually find themselves concerned with bettering society.

David H. Stern

#2. The owner of the boom box marches over and turns the music down. He shrugs when he sees me staring. "Hey, noise pollution elicits fewer phone calls to the police than screaming and battle sounds. At least, that's the case in Berlin," he says.

Amy Plum

#3. When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

James N. Frey

#4. I'm not too vain - I sometimes take pride in my appearance, but I stick to the rule never to spend longer than a girl getting ready.

Nicholas Hoult

#5. I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Eric San

#6. My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.

Sophie Kinsella

#7. The dreadful nostalgia for a wasted life,
the fatal feeling that you were born too late,
or the restless hope for an impossible morning
with the nearby restlessness of the flesh's ache

Federico Garcia Lorca

#8. We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

Peter Weiss

#9. I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'

Lesley Ann Warren

#10. Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

Stephanie Herseth

#11. I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

Eddie Vedder

#12. When you're planning the perfect Christmas ... the gifts, the lights, the decorations, the paries, the cards, don't forget the most important item on the list - Christ.

Toni Sorenson

#13. To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have.

Debasish Mridha