#city

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#city #city hall #down #essentially #group

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ↗

— Ray Charles

#force #know #light #like #really

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#after #capacity #chain #could #events

I'm unemployable in any other capacity. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#capacity #i #other

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live. ↗

— Lee Child

#america #capital #city #course #each

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#before #city #cooler #find #first

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bureaucrats #city #city government #complicated #condition

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. ↗

— E.B. White

#life

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#far #go #going #how #how far