#ness

You went up a girl and came down a woman. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#mistress-coyle #monsters-of-men #patrick-ness #viola #men

If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins to understand why men and women don't get on very well within marriage, or indeed in any exclusive sort of long-range sexual relationship. He is designed to make as many babies as possible with as many different women as he can get his hands on, while she is designed to take time off from her busy schedule as astronaut or role model to lay an egg and bring up the result. Male and female are on different sexual tracks, and that cannot be changed by the Book or any book. Since all our natural instincts are carefully perverted from birth, it is no wonder that we tend to be, if not all of us serial killers, killers of our own true nature. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#business

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone. ↗

— Ford Madox Ford

#loneliness #people #men

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. ↗

— Julian Assange

#nuturing #victim #victimhood #victims #men

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment. ↗

— David Sedaris

#inspiration #lazy #motivation #work-ethic #business

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in. ↗

— Po Bronson

#business #business

Loneliness is amplified when everyone you know is busy talking to everyone but you. ↗

— N.K. Smith

#business

No 'Good evening, Jean-Claude, how are you doing?' Just down to business. How terribly rude,ma petite ." - Jean-Claude ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#business

God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly follows the biblical trend that God would choose the unexpected and the culturally "unfit" - like introverts - to lead his church for the sake of greater glory. ↗

— Adam S. McHugh

#church #god #introverts #leadership #business

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#men #women #business