#de

Even though they were staring at each other across a busy street, the little old lady and the gang of adolescent skinheads might just as well have been nose to nose. They stared. No one blinked. No one backed down. This little old lady had never in her life backed down before mere adolescents. Her daughter had what was perhaps a better grasp of what was perhaps reality. “Mama,” she said as she shifted her bag of groceries to her other arm, “Come on. Let’s go. They’re skinheads. Probably up from Bircher country. ↗

— Barbara Ardinger

#goddess #goddess-fiction #secret-lives #business

Nick pulled a business card out of a pocket and handed it to Elphaba. It read Nicholas Lynch, Inspector, Ministry of Magick, next to a moving image of Nick, mugging for the camera. “I finally get to use my Harry Potter business cards! ↗

— Abramelin Keldor

#paranormal #business

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#conversation #future-plans #lost-generation #modest #new-york

Ariel: "...but I have a...a business proportion for you." Jerry: "Okay. What can I do for you? You want the back part of the acreage cleared?" Ariel: "No, nothing like that. Here's the deal. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#business

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#inspirational #leadership #success #business

Morwen lifted a corner of the mouth. «Save your breath, Bagrund. I'm not back. We need to talk to Raich.» «The King is currently busy. Go back where you came.» Bagrund's gaze was sharp as a blade. «He will bother for me.» ↗

— Chiara Cilli

#business

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels. ↗

— Henry Fox

#hall #heels #his #law #old

I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#drivers #earlier #especially #experience #explained

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#art #been #before #common #doing

Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically. ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business