#range

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#damaging #gradual #more #outcomes #plausible

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market. ↗

— Vince Cable

#additional #bring #businesses #choice #competition

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#always #anything #avoid #classify #contact

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#certainty #down #imagination #later #leads

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#autobiographies #become #bodies #friends #lives

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#aspect #aspects #certain #confer #dream

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#butterflies #catches #common #distraction #fatal

Thou strange piece of wild nature! ↗

— Colley Cibber

#piece #strange #thou #wild

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#although #am #asia #assistance #because

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#black #come #conscious #crimes #masses