#san

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#companies #enron #failures #i #i think

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. ↗

— Al Lewis

#center #garment #her #immigrant #life

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#great #how #ills #incessant #old

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#clear #cold #day #excursions #frost

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#chamber #columns #echo #general #general manager

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#across #ask #come #flower #i

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#brother-in-law #brought #coverage #fact #fiancee

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#arctic #coastal #complete #ecosystem #home