#able

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#any #business #community #cost #gain

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#archives #been #comb #diaries #free

If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#afforded #being #i #kind #life

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.' ↗

— Celine Dion

#blonde #couple #craziest #cut #done

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#government #long #opposition #secure #without

I'm never going to be comfortable being squished into a box, and that's why it's been weird in Hollywood, they don't know what to do with me, because I can play the game up to a point, but then I can't at all. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#been #being #box #comfortable #game

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#along #average #beings #composed #geniuses

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#absolute #appalling #capable #charity #degree

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#agree #bad #been #enjoy #getting

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#however #impossible #improbable #maxim #mine