#operates

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#atlantic ocean #backward #crab #crawling #ever

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#build #countries #democratic #enjoy #good

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

#case #dishonest #give #honest #how

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#imagination #operates #senses #spell #true

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency. ↗

— Paul Rudd

#because #frequency #his #me #nelson

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#first-hand #how #i #intentions #interpreted

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. ↗

— Andy Grove

#big #capable #compete #doing #employee

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#eternity #find #his #location #meet

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#language #literal #metaphorical #operates #signification