#provision

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. ↗

— Charles Wagner

#certain #elemental #humanity #lived #lives

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

Education is the best provision for old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#best #education #old #old age #provision

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#appreciate #change #clarity #gradual #here

-age's lust loose! ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#improvisions #kora #age

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. ↗

— Jack Higgins

#ira #irish #like #look #makes

New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend. ↗

— John Lawson

#attended #colonies #country #families #force

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#contagion #countries #currency #european #eurozone

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies. ↗

— James Stephens

#birds #both #heads #indeed #necessary