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Development Quotes


"It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain."


"White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues."


"Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing."


"I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about."


"Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend."


"In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development."


"I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal."


"The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back."


"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."


"By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade."


"What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now."


"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."


"It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking."


"Learn more about the character traits you have and those you want to develop."


"Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies."


"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."


"We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire."


"And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth."


"Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field."


"To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up."


"Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington."


"We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel."


"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."


"The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China."


"We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development."


"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason."


"All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco."


"I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy."


"I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa."


"This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade."


"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."


"For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development."


"But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked."


"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."


"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans."


"Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living."


"I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation."


"Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development."


"Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be."


"We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program."


"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision."


"Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development."


"The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief."


"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."


"Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development."


"Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity."


"You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others."


"Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development."


"Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development."


"The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers."
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