![We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.](/assets/img/quote-photos/we-usa-and-china-have-a-common-responsibility-with-different-numerical-targets.jpg)
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moving timing
God's timing in moving me down here was perfect, Joseph Allen
moving reality checks
This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on. Alan Black
moving acting want
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it. Rob Reiner
moving needs waste
You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste. Richelle Mead
moving love-you i-will-always-love-you
i will always love you." "no you won't. you'll move on. So will i.
moving practice secret
It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.
moving mean sleep
What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron
moving trials olympics
The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward. Ryan Lochte
moving writing mind
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing. Rose Macaulay
responsibility understanding
It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case.
responsibility age succeed
You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.
responsibility thinking effort
I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. William J. Clinton
responsibility opportunity america
When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.
responsibility community benefits
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.
responsibility community towns
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. Sarah Palin
responsibility three speak
The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong." Richard M. Nixon
responsibility duty available
It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available. Vance Havner
responsibility eras new-era
A new era of responsibility is here. Valerie Jarrett
cutting soul progress
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. Virchand Gandhi
cutting years kitchen
When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again. Woody Allen
cutting bird delight
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? William Blake
cutting wings heaven
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
cutting views space
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet. Sally Ride
cutting jewelry diamond-rings
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. William Congreve
cutting men thinking
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse. William Cowper
cutting thinking choices
My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises. Tracee Ellis Ross
cutting soul enemy
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. Ursula K. Le Guin