#neither

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. ↗

— William Safire

#answer #bandied #brought #call #colleague

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#hostile #indifferent #merely #neither #nor

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#ad #agency #chances #client #either

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#anything #being #being the best #best #could

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#considers #else #father #his #husband

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disgrace #honor #i #much #neither

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#army #church #had #indian #individualist

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#govern #governs #here #i #me

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#certain #complex #endowed #institution #name