#section

The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#friends #good #interests #must #needs

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

#bookstore #defeat #i #me #purpose

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#intersection #life-lines #love #marriage #married-life

It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and then you have to live with it when it's finished. It's forever in your section in the video store. It's you. It's almost like deciding who you have a child with. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

#almost #because #big #big commitment #child

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. ↗

— Cole Younger

#being #born #county #fighters #i

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#confined #his #jackson #means #own

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#constant #emotional #exciting #falls #less

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#catching #chaos #days #defends #hands

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#each #except #isles #laughing #own

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. ↗

— David McCullough

#doing #explain #helpful #how #people