#mon

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#back #ceremony #church #during #favor

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#among #choose #disadvantages #govern

I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me; didn’t know I’d relive them every day. Death would have been more merciful. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#romance #tragedy #ya #death

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. ↗

— John Stossel

#away #bankrupt #close #creative #creative people

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months. ↗

— King George V

#am #boy #dead #himself #i

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#directed #imbalances #itself #monetary #monetary policy

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#collected #england #ever #food #money

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#away #diamonds #explained #like #out

Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace. ↗

— Susan George

#anything #beyond #got #important #important things

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#established #firmly #francis #i #monarchy