#mar

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#i #married #queen #rather #single

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #just #longer #problems #smart

I don't sleep with happily married men. ↗

— Britt Ekland

#i #married #married men #men #sleep

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#creation #downgrade #economy #face #further

Sweetheart, I want you to go somewhere with your life. I know that you can do some wonderful things if you set your mind to it. You’re a smart and caring teenager. Much more mature then most seventeen year olds. But death is inevitable for everybody. No matter how much people try to fight it, it’s going to happen.” Eden looked at me with a serious expression painted on her face. “Death doesn’t suit everybody, though. ↗

— B.C. Doyle

#til-death-do-us-part #death

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#being #being beautiful #i #like #look

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#deal #dump #fake #how #i

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#big #chunk #corporation #give #goal

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

I was a smart kid, but I hated school. ↗

— Eminem

#i #kid #school #smart