#pass

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #also #building #china #economic

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. ↗

— Michael Ende

#because #calendars #clocks #eternity #exist

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#absolute #act #always #decisions #great

Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#beauty

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#colleagues #desk #doubt #dozen #initials

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#constitutes #controlling #dream #earth #field

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality. ↗

— Michael Gartner

#corporate #decision #lost #may #much

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. ↗

— Steve Garvey

#goals #must #passionate #pursuit #relentless

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#away #day #drink #good #i

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. ↗

— Bill Gates

#death #each #eu #even #fad