#proceeds

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#anger #cause #either #fury #great

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. ↗

— Ed Harris

#bigger #competition #differences #ethnic #fighting

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#continuous #deficiency #going #habit #knowing

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. ↗

— William Reddington Hewlett

#business #certainties #judgments #probabilities #proceeds

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #because #cowardice #die #live

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#advance #encountering #explore #i #i see

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#closets #costume #day #drawers #dress

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#good #live #most #people #proceeds

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#because #been #choice #high #high standards