#do

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#almost #anonymity #because #continued #dreaded

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#bodies #get #grow #longer #older

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#duller #earth #london #ours #rainy

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#corporations #did #doors #during #equal

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#back #being #bring #down #had

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#freedom #full #i #letters #never

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#beginning #came #child #conventional #cubism

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. ↗

— Robert Quine

#familiar #i #nasty #songs #stones

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#becomes #discovery #enriched #every #first