#si

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#defensive #does #education #general #higher

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Fishel

#both #dare #hold #images #mirrors

My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect. ↗

— John Fisher

#been #celebrate #dignity #equal #freedom

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#calls #depression #judgment #manic #world

I really have to make sure that I'm staying true to who I am, and that I know my responsibilities to current N.B.A. players, to future N.B.A. players, to our past and retired N.B.A. Players. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#current #future #i #i am #know

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#certain #chasing #deal #i #just

He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#lords-of-the-underworld #virginity #workaholics #business

Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? ↗

— Bill Hicks

#comedy #humor #philosophy #business

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#always #catholic #caused #completely #date

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#beastly #better #business #even #exist