#activity

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basically #behalf #consumers #corporate #designed

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#hands #i #interesting #interesting work #like

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things. ↗

— Origen

#bent #devoted #divine #god #life

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#back #business #businesses #demand #driver

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#budget #budget deficits #deficits #economic #economic activity

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

#awful #before #between #children #civilians

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #culture #different #forms #intellectual

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#any #emotion #expression #joyful #making

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#algeria #experienced #experiencing #government #israeli