#relatio

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#annoying #expression #machine #more #near

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#country #create #democracy #democratic #embodies

One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish. ↗

— James Salter

#life #love #relationships #faith

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#compared #could #friendly #men #pleasure

The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#based #being #between #china #chinese

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#arabia #chinese #different #different world #everywhere

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest. ↗

— Susannah York

#comfortable #feel #happy #having #i

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#between #course #draw #fight #going

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life. ↗

— Linda Vester

#important #inherently #life #relation #sometimes

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#close #commodities #correlation #dollar #dollars