#heir

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#calling #growing #had #hair #horrible

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. ↗

— Christopher Wren

#earth #eyes #like #men #our

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #clothes #drunkard #eat #give

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#becoming #best #intended #men #prevent

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bodily #faculty #goodness #men #mental

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. ↗

— Vince Cable

#associations #bank #cannot #continental #due

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#children #decision #desires #encourage #give

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. ↗

— Jack Cade

#cherish #commons #destroy #duke #england