#ling

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#failings #inability #mankind #quiet #stay

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men. ↗

— David Bailey

#any #feelings #hate #i #manly

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#decided #focus #out #singling #them

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too. ↗

— Anthony A. Williams

#effort #enormous #job #lose #put

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#ennobling #recovery #suffering

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#associated #balk #bin #bush #chance

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #feelings #i #like #me

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#difference #feeling #found #get #i

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#create #into #new #people #place

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#even #feeling #just #kill #man