#lem

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#consumption #gentleman #goods #leisure #means

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. ↗

— Joan Didion

#adoption #been #else #feels #i

I am at heart a gentleman. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#gentleman #heart #i #i am

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #communication #down #each #fight

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#always #capital #committee #compensation #economy

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups. ↗

— John Dingell

#also #both #both sides #capitol #control

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#heaven #history #jerusalem #more #the history of

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#art #athens #city #conquest #dwells

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#comes #down #elements #going #i

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#because #certain #element #get #goodbye