#pen

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#buy #dime #ever #every #extravagant

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#cost #costs #depend #importantly #labour

Inexpensive is good. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#inexpensive

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #cycling #depends #energy #major

I have lost years that I will never get back. Only now am I just beginning to live, on the verge of old age. It is painful and unfair. But today I have a different attitude to life: it can't be constructed from superficial things, no matter how attractive they may appear. Neither wealth not appearances have any importance now. Pain gave me new life. It took a long time for me to die as Malika, General Oufkir's eldest daughter, the child of a powerful figure, of a past. I've gained an identity. My own identity. And that is priceless. If there had not been all that waste, all that horror...I'd almost venture to say that my suffering made me grow. In any case, it changed me. for the better. It's as well to make the best of things. ↗

— Malika Oufkir

#age

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#expensive #flights #hotels #player #professional

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#around #attached #beautiful #burning #characters

I don't really plan. I just see what happens. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#i #just #plan #really #see

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#enjoy #happiness #how #much #you

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. ↗

— Jane Austen

#age