#rand

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#been #gods #grandmother #how #i

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#been #curative #even #every #grand

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#dots #generation #grandchildren #lines

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company. ↗

— Larry Page

#big #carry #come #companies #company

Together, we created the STACKED brand and have really taken the product up two or three notches. ↗

— Tim Page

#created #notches #product #really #stacked

My grandson Sam Saunders has been playing golf since he could hold a club and I spent a lot of time with him over the years. Like my father taught me, I showed him the fundamentals of the game and helped him make adjustments as he and his game matured over the years. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#club #could #father #fundamentals #game

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#become #cannon #care #children #fodder

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

My name is Davis Davis. And don’t call me Mr. Davis! How would you like it if I called you Mr. Archibald, or whatever your first name is? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #random #funny