#les

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. ↗

— George Orwell

#lesser #often #war

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#business #business partner #find #happens #lifetime

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #degree #even #finger #invariably

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#individual #lessons #life #load #our

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#enlightenment #forever #life-lessons #memories #spirituality

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. ↗

— Delia Ephron

#angeles #buildings #by the time #los #los angeles

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything. ↗

— Brian Eno

#anything #convincing #definite #form #good

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#aches #ageless #aspirin #cheese #companions

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#feel #flame #glass #hand #hardly