#age

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#bargain #discontented #excellent #frame #him

I have a very intense marriage. ↗

— James Ellroy

#intense #marriage #very

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise. ↗

— Doug Elmendorf

#gdp #happened #otherwise #package #raising

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock. ↗

— William Emerson

#conversation #engage #idle #man #planning

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

#becomes #best #effort #efforts #inseparably

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you. ↗

— Faith Evans

#best #both #deal #got #gotta

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#story #beauty

Tragedy is a literary concept. ↗

— David Hockney

#literary #tragedy

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ↗

— Bob Hope

#around #middle #middle age #show #starts

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#debt #like #marriage #nature #owe