#people

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#being #being in love #china #doubt #ever

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of. ↗

— Mary Quant

#because #better #compete #fashion #home

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#country #dearly #greatly #i #i love

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#people #society #life

Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career. ↗

— Steve Purcell

#career #creative #creative people #into #made

We want to increase our investment so the next year we'll borrow less. We want to make sure that we provide more jobs for our people. We need to bring fresh money. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#bring #fresh #increase #investment #jobs

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#american #american people #ask #burden #carry

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace. ↗

— Prem Rawat

#anywhere #around #china #else #greatest

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#communicating #i #i am #interested #many

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#bunch #could #done #get #idiots