#ended

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#become #get #intended #man #moment

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#been #came #come #core #found

Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards. ↗

— Robert Shea

#ancestors #another #being #care #eaten

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#big #big brother #brother #ended #filmmaker

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#effect #general #good #intended #liberty

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#album #extended #extended family #family #generally

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#business model #consequence #happy #hbo #how

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#advance #age #attended #born #count