#cons

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ↗

— Jane Austen

#enhanced #foolish #inconvenience #often #pleasure

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000? ↗

— Max Azria

#cares #certain #consumer #elite #entered

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#blessedness #consists #desires #having #only

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#consideration #excused #money #moral #others

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#admitted #ambition #another #becomes #consist

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#any #cannot #constrained #discipline #form

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#cash #construction #eager #federal #fill

We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#believe #bold #conservative #constitutional #down

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. ↗

— Eric Bana

#college #english #going #had #i

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#believers #conscience #earnest #even #judgment