#dl

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle. ↗

— Nell Carter

#diabetic #feared #having #i #me

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. ↗

— Steve Case

#befuddled #better #computers #easier #expensive

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#badly #before #being #blue #blue eyes

When I first learned to drive and I bought petrol I went to great lengths to trickle the final drops into the petrol tank so it cost a round amount of money like £10. Now I try and spend £19.87 or £20.04 or some other amount that I hope will disturb the cashier’s sense of neatness and uniformity. ↗

— Helen Smith

#money

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow. ↗

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#money

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of ↗

— Lee Child

#money

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#does #happiness #idleness #life #only

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chess #clever #course #eyes #felt

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#accepted #believe #blame #capitalism #change

We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice. ↗

— Arthur Christiansen

#hand #just #never #opinion #saying