#red

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. ↗

— Lee Child

#fired #i #job #really #simple

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#agencies #billions #bureaucracy #cards #credit

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#belated #defense #delivered #eulogy #evidence

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ↗

— Andy Richter

#briefly #considered #doing #edgar #i

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#difficult #ever #faith #god #in the beginning

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#broken #expectations #hopes #improved #men

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#cleveland #come #first #indians #instead

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#business #credit #lend #lending #money