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  • I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.

    Country   Feet   America  
  • You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

    Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”
  • Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

    Military   Men   Careers  
  • A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

    Iraq   Lag   Facts  
    "Togetherness In Baghdad" by George Will, www.newsweek.com. November 5, 2006.
  • The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

    Beautiful   Garden   Soul  
    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.118, NYU Press
  • The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

    Running   Long   People  
    1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).
  • Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

    Heart   June   Lazy  
    James Henry Leigh Hunt, “To The Grasshopper And The Cricket”
  • Jet lag depends on which direction you're going and it can be a little complicated, but there are a few different treatments. So one would be if you're going somewhere - sorry it's hard to think about it.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum." "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge." Ian shuddered. "I thought not.

    Morning   Two   Tea  
    Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.
  • The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

    Numbers   Needs   Credit  
  • Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

  • No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.

    Country   Strong   Rights  
    Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, July 1, 2013.
  • I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

    Relaxation   Lag   Quiet  
    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 23
  • There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.

  • Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

  • As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

  • I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

    Ideas   Overcoming   Lag  
  • There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being. There is a great deal to be said about such harmony, not only for an individual life but also for the life of a society. It's because as a world we have gotten ourselves so far out of harmony, so way off on the material side, that when we discover something like nuclear energy we are still capable of putting it into a bomb and using it to kill people! This is because our inner well-being lags so far behind our outer well-being.

    People   Simplicity   Way  
  • Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

  • They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.

    Men   Hands   Perfect  
    "The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : A Selection". Book edited by Hubert Wellington, translated by Lucy Norton, p. 256, 1980.
  • The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

    Dream   Art   Halloween  
    Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”
  • You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

    Acting   Transition   Lag  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

    Real   Gossip   Fans  
  • Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

    Leader   Waiting   Trying  
    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.118, Lulu.com
  • In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press
  • I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

    "Capitalism has learned to create host organisms". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.
  • When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

  • Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

    Design   Research   Lag  
  • I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

  • Because of the inherent time lag in the climate system, the greenhouse gases that have already been pumped into the atmosphere will undoubtedly lead to a certain increase in temperature in the coming decades.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
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