#ge

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #inverse #involved #item #proportion

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#construction #down #house #houses #iroquois

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#companions #exception #greatest #himself #home

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#apprehension #before #days #evident #few

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#because #chance #disappointed #exploits #fighter

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#done #get #helped #how #i

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#begins #big #bloated #doors #feel

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#because #character #different #felt #forgot

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. ↗

— Charles Stewart Parnell

#fragment #geographical #ireland #nation #should

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#battlefield #bible #course #court #courts