#managed

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

#direct #easily #harder #man #managed

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#dreadfully #hardly #knows #managed #whom

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#aspects #carry #during #economic #economic problems

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#country #dissent #eliminate #entirely #ever

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#alienate #amazing #because #before #consistency

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way. ↗

— Lou Reed

#career #chandler #doing #going #his

As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#become #connect #different #different people #i

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat. ↗

— Alex Cox

#because #cowboy #cowboy hat #day #else

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#connections #hard #i #i think #legal

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#child #crap #dodge #getting #grow