#cons

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers. ↗

— John Hutton

#broader #business #consumers #costs #easy

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#book #booth #calling #constantly #dizzy

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way. ↗

— John Hutton

#also #consult #continue #ensure #front

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future. ↗

— John Hutton

#applied #been #constructed #essential #fundamental

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

#creep #feels #impulse #never #soar

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#dangerous #ignorance #more #nothing #sincere

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#feel #inferior #make #without #you

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

The albatross hit the top and canted her soft belly to the storm, and made a screaming banked peel-out downwind and over the other side. I don't know if anyone else on the ship saw her. To me, she was a visitation. Not harbinger or annunciation, but a simple reminder of a wold that worked, that was at home with itself and friends with storm. ↗

— Peter Heller

#conservation #page- #home

Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #magnus-bane #sarcasm #humor