#ions

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#booming #christ #church #clock #college

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#because #love #relationships #sex #then

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#always #am #food #how #i

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#communism #delusion #dictatorship #few #form

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#bargaining #benefit #cannot #consent #employers

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canadian #concrete #confidence #evidence #expanding

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#life #mostly #people #trying

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#did #know #little #millions #people