#pro

Honesty is all I've got," she said finally, speaking in a low voice. "I don't have family. I don't have beauty, or a man. I don't have money, and I sure as hell don't have a future. All I've got to prop up my pride is my word." Her chin rose. "When Jenny Jones says something, you can bet your last peso that it's true. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#promises #beauty

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living! ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#got #great #great way #hobby #i

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#few #into #matter #much #proverb

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumer #diminishing #first #increase #increasing

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#die #fool #generation #go #lukewarm

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#get #gotta #life #out #own

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#because #feel #getting #kind #like

I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#cia #covert #difficult #even #extraordinarily

We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#destruction #develop #engaged #had #into

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#being #capable #created #culture #person