#signs

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #china #clinton #clinton administration #continue

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disproportion #great #madness #means #proof

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#come #design #designs #leopard #nature

Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fiction #germans #holocaust #nazis #signs-and-symbols

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#assure #damage #examine #nasa #orbit

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#comic #comic strips #gas #i #interesting

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.' ↗

— John McCain

#environment #government #human #live #part

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#characters #common #good #good person #into

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs. ↗

— Francesca da Rimini

#beauty #deeper #features #search #signs