#iv

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#banks #be prepared #best #central #divine

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative. ↗

— John Goodman

#creative #i #need #nice #something

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#descriptive #insightful #beauty

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#exclusively #field #first #flight #optimal

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#decent #decent standard #enjoy #ever #i

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#lord #make #most #must #steward

Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#survival #beauty

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#cared #die #goal #i #know

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#chivalry #end #fathers #led #man

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#die #live #most #music #never