#nu

I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #beauty

She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl's eyes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #beauty

Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most. She could not understand it. She could not begin to understand. ↗

— David Mitchell

#beauty

The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fake #genuine #genuineness #goodness #hypocrisy

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#business #continue #fail #good #our

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#sex #wordplay #change

There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet. ↗

— P.J. Tracy

#dead-run #p-j-tracy #business

When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#best #colleges #costs #declining #foreign