#nothing

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#government program #nothing #permanent #program #temporary

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#al #chain #dell #global #iraq

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#carried #extreme #great #great minds #idol

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#demands #done #else #except #nothing

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#governments #liars #nothing #run #say

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#nothing #poor #promise

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#defect #depends #grasping #judgment #many

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#nothing #unwilling

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ↗

— George Eliot

#come #golden #gone #know #life

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#ashamed #bad #done #i #nothing