They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.
A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.-RVM
It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.
People change for two main reasons: either their minds have been opened or their hearts have been broken
What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
I think a Christian definition of the mind should be: an openness to whatever the individual and collective mind reveals to us.
Though it's a small price to pay, shaving my head has opened more doors than I ever thought possible.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.
When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.
I'm just so lucky - my office is a racetrack. That is something I'm very thankful for. It's exciting, and it's challenging, and there are a lot of emotions and nerves that come with it, but right there before the gates open, before that minute and a ...
Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.
If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
