Periphery Quotes

Work with the people to find things that would be creative that would maybe prevent damage. Particularly for people that are really on the periphery of the flood area that could maybe for relatively small investment could do improvements that would prevent flooding. - Tom Smith

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs. - Louise Slaughter

What the department is attempting to do is let hunters take those in periphery counties. They don't have many, especially on private lands. Where they may be a nuisance and in the past might have 'disappeared,' this may provide a way for them to be taken under legal means and legal ways. - Jim Sutherlin

We are concerned about security on the periphery of the airport, ... But since we don't have passengers, we don't have screening points. - Dave Miller

Urban poverty is on the rise and the poor living on the periphery are forced into the inner city to seek work opportunities. - Kgosientso Ramokgopa

Until six months ago, it appeared the Internet brokers were on the periphery. - Raymond James

This is clearly a result of warming around the periphery of Greenland. - Eric Rignot

The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally, we do face a new threat. But we also face a renewed choice - between isolation in a perilous world, which I believe is impossible in any event, and engagement to shape a safer world which is the urgent imperative of our time. - Senator John Kerry

That's why Sidebar is something important. You will be able to put it to the side and just watch it on the periphery, and the widescreen allows this. - Jim Allchin

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action. - Daniel Goleman