Andrew Natsios quotes

“Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.”
-- Andrew Natsios

#Cities Quotes #Crumbling Quotes #Serious Quotes

“The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.”
-- Andrew Natsios

#Country Quotes #Boston Quotes #Water Quotes

“It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.”
-- Andrew Natsios

#People Quotes #Cost Quotes #Four Quotes

“Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.”
-- Andrew Natsios

#Doe Quotes #Washington Dc Quotes #Development Quotes

“No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.”
-- Andrew Natsios

Source : "Foley remembered for 'compassion'" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2002.

#Compassion Quotes #Effort Quotes #Brotherhood Quotes

“Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.”

“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.”

“It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.”

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”

Source : Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True

“The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.”

“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”

“When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.”

“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”