#peri

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#memories #past #real #remembering #surreal

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#attacks #bad #been #before #business

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ↗

— John Ruskin

#force #intellect #operation #passion #skill

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#being #conceded #creatures #earth #earthly

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#because #been #comfortable #everyone #experience

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#care #each #enough #experienced #group

Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#any #budget #budget cuts #criticism #cuts

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#days #debt #demanded #due #lot

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#around #benefits #create #economies #enhance

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#certain #deceive #dependable #experience #feign