#sine

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#swearing #business

There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet. ↗

— P.J. Tracy

#dead-run #p-j-tracy #business

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep. ↗

— Mark Twain

#childhood #conscience #human-nature #humanity #sleep

Some PR is about getting information about a great product or thingy out to the people who would enjoy it, while other PR is about creating a web of lies that conceals the fact that your company harnesses the energy produced by rape and uses it to make a chemical that kills forests for fun. Either way, you're going to need it. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#humor #business

No funny business. I’ll scream and dead or not it will hurt your ears ↗

— Penelope Fletcher

#humor #business

I assume you have a reason for manhandling my mate?” Cool words but his amusement was apparent. “Riley likes Mercy,” she stage-whispered, trying to twist around to look at her mate. “But she told him that h—oomph.” Riley set her on her feet without warning. She swayed, but Judd's hands on her hips kept her upright. Pushing her hair off her face, she leaned into her sexy Psy mate and smirked at Riley. “Sooo . . .” “Judd.” Riley ignored her. “You're obviously not interesting enough for my sister—she's got way too much time to poke her nose into other people's business.” Judd wrapped his arms around her from behind, his chin on her hair. “I'm more interested in you and Mercy. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#judd #riley #business

Courtiers never look like fools, or engage in hard work if they can’t make it look easy. Conquering the world is a sweaty business, and perspiration always betrays. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #grace #business

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#entrepreneurship #innovation #business

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years. ↗

— Stephen King

#business

sejak bekerja di majalah, kami mengerti Valentine adalah momen dagang....Korbannya tentu remaja-remaja naif, orang-orang melankolis, yang tidak sadar uangnya dirampok siang-siang. ↗

— Syahmedi Dean

#business