#harp

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#balance #before #britain #cards #case

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#lost #otherwise #pleasures #sharpens #small

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. ↗

— William Drummond

#scholar #sharpens

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#considering #hard #harp #might #resist

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#get #need #off #pain #sharp

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#edges #leadership #necessarily #necessary #occasionally

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#delights #depends #everything #imagination #joy

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. ↗

— King Solomon

#friend #iron #sharpens

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose. ↗

— David Spade

#get #got #i #loose #myself