#la

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth. ↗

— David Reuben

#being #being done #business #contracts #dollars

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#before #every #fight #fighting #fits

Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#change

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress. ↗

— Mike Ross

#congress #made #moderate #polarized #redistricting

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? ↗

— Jose Saramago

#base #bush #chavez #flag #him

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#get #grunge #hair #heels #i

We have to build the framework in which we will execute the tasks. ↗

— LTG Christianson

#management #planning #strategy #leadership

Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much. ↗

— Izabella Scorupco

#fire #how #i #know #much

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#crowd #demonstration #early #easily #evenings