#ration

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#companies #file #forced #imbalance #important

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#comes #end #end of the world #episode #every

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#another #generation #passes #simply #society

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#art #begun #concern #contribution #erased

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. ↗

— Serena Williams

#down #gun #keep #playing #shooting

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#discretion #fluency #great #orator #our

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#goals-in-life #humor #inspirational #wish #funny

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing. ↗

— Corey Clark

#american idol #come #corporation #dealing #either