#ness

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business. ↗

— Jessica Biel

#doing #give #going #hopefully #i

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#corporation #device #individual #individual responsibility #ingenious

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. ↗

— Tony Blair

#business #centre #got #ground #labour

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain? ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#memory #pain #beauty

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove. ↗

— James Beattie

#day #forgetfulness #grove #hamlet #heard

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#grows #man #method #up #wickedness

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#business #day #especially #every #every day

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#fellow #give #greater #happiness #happy