#pera

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#difficult #human #human beings #intersect #just

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on. ↗

— William Devane

#because #called #does #going #knots

If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#change #children #going #grandchildren #operates

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al-qaeda #any #between #collaboration #communicate

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fashionable #imperative #into #join #madmen

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#destroying #full #here #i #la

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. ↗

— Roma Downey

#assumption #child #children #cultures #fact

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam. ↗

— Roma Downey

#happened #heading #i #i think #just

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' ↗

— Peter Drucker

#clerks #companies #computers #employment #even