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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#alcoholism #business #disease #egotism #executives

Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#care #caring #consume #consumes #disorder

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. ↗

— Dorothy Gilman

#arrive #arrives #best #feel #finds

It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction." If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#funny #husbands #law #marriage #matrimony

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions. ↗

— Danny Glover

#drives #hard #hard questions #question #questions

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. ↗

— Elinor Glyn

#best #divorced #easily #generous #husbands

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#been #cameo #certain #certain way #chain

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom. ↗

— Rumer Godden

#bloom #books #carpet #gives #life

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power. ↗

— Seth Godin

#chooses #drives #get #important #important thing

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#embrace #enhancement #enlightenment #less #light