#heir

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#anybody #anything #anywhere #being #clothes

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#ahead #asked #centuries #following #i

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#agents #also #context #day #firemen

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#agents #before #efficiently #give #had

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#because #come #earth #heaven #kingdom

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. ↗

— John Muir

#climb #get #good #mountains #their

Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#companies #company #created #developing #development

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#boards #companies #constituents #data #defend

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#key #lives #moments #other #out