#ling

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ↗

— Plutarch

#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves. ↗

— Zac Posen

#body image #fashion #image #killing #themselves

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#amazing #amazing experience #boring #day #enriching

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#elegance #feeling #gives #indeed #solution

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#cut #dirty #head #his #how

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#come #contingent #defend #fact #others

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#adjust #agents #also #economic #economy

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#eat #fast #fast food #food #go

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#common law #knows #lady #law #learn