#of

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#itself #life #living #meaning #meaning of

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

#leave #must #passage #poet #proof

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#doing #fascinating #interesting #job #life

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #arya #feast #funny #george-r-r-martin

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#category #mechanic #professor #same #talks

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? ↗

— Jesus Christ

#his #loss #man #profit #shall

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. ↗

— Claus von Stauffenberg

#been #could #general #had #high

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#adverse #between #directly #ending #front

And how do you confess to a beautiful woman that you can't fulfill a relationship because you're tormented by the presence of another woman that doesn't even exist? ↗

— Victoria Caro

#tormented-mind #beauty