#net

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#frances-hodgson-burnett #giver #inspirational #inspirational

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#environment #inspirational #planet #inspirational

Ronan woke up the following morning with a terrible hangover and a huge sense of regret. He had hurt the woman he loves most in the world and he knew Katie was very strong willed and didn’t forgive easily. ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#honey-trap #irish-writer #forgiveness

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them. ↗

— Stafford Beer

#cybernetics #models #paradigms #science #change

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#inspirational #networking #humor

...he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while. ↗

— Ellen O'Connell

#design

The Internet is the Viagra of big business. ↗

— Jack Welch

#big business #business #internet #viagra

Her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail, and her flawless skin had a slight sheen from her dash across the parking lot and up the stairs. Sexy, but he suspected the fantasy the sheen inspired was better than the reality. She was the job. Probably wore Kevlar to bed. End of story. Still, he did enjoy playing with her. He liked her big blue eyes, cute little nose, slim athletic body, and her earnest dedication to making the world a more law-abiding place. It made his dedication to crime much more interesting. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#janet-evanovich #kate-o-hare #lee-goldberg #nick-fox #inspirational

Ninety percent of everything is crap. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#everything #ninety #percent

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#anyone #basically #broadband #calls #doing