#pit

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ↗

— Robert Frost

#had #i #lover #me #my own

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents. ↗

— David Frum

#ever #his #nobody #opponents #political

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#brad #brad pitt #down #face #get

Pride will spit in pride's face. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#pride #spit #will

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#become #capitalism #country #embrace #finance

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capitalism #communism #exploits #just #man

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#capital #dialectic #economic #enterprise #great

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#burning #closed #cockpit #could #enemy