#hal

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. ↗

— Brian Roberts

#cable #call #compete #conclusion #could

After all this time?' 'Always,' said Snape. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #lily #lily-potter #love #memory

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#always #aspect #away #carried #cases

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#blasé #new-york-city #nonchalance #funny

There are two covenants that cease to exist in the Master's Kingdom - death and marriage." "What an appropriate pairing," I muse. "He thought so. ↗

— Addison Moore

#marshall #skyla #toxic #death

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense. ↗

— Massad Ayoob

#lethal-force #regret #responsibility #death

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#bond #challenges #create #dollar #environmental

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#intelligence #trial #intelligence

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay. ↗

— Art Rooney

#collect #day #had #half #i

I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole? ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hana #hana-tate #lena #lena-haloway #requiem