#pit

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. ↗

— Judy Davis

#dramatic #god #got #ideas #men

Reform is born of need, not pity. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#need #pity #reform

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#incident #natural #our #pitiful #sex

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#aircraft #assistance #below #capital #cost

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#charity #divisive #dollar #others #pits

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't. ↗

— Harold Ford

#capitalist #i #i believe #i believe that #lose

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. ↗

— Patty Duke

#monitor #people #self-pity #tell #their

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#dystopia #prophesy #science-fiction #beauty

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#both #build #chuck #defense #difficult