#indefinite

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. ↗

— Christian Dior

#ages #between #continue #ever #fascinating

First we need to get a buttload of nails.’ ‘A buttload? How much is that?’ ‘Uh…’ Granuaile rescued me with her superior knowledge of indefinite units of measurement. ‘I believe that’s slightly more than a shitload but much less than a fuckton. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#humor #indefinite-units-of-measurement #humor

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#child #far #forced #i #indefinitely

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards. ↗

— Keith Henson

#attention #family #indefinitely #long-term #making

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#companies #example #finally #flag #ibm

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#acquire #apply #better #continuously #develop

But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#array #being #created #daily #dizzying

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#administration #because #both #bush #bush administration