#tab

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#behind #going #had #infinitely #instance

People always laugh at me when I tell them I’m scared of pencils, because they can’t fathom why anyone would fear a puncture wound or lead poisoning from a pencil, especially now that it’s impossible to get lead poisoning since they don’t actually contain lead. But those fuckers are sharp, and I have nightmares about getting cornered in a room and repeatedly stabbed with one. Somehow knives don’t frighten me, even though they are the more obvious tool for both a real and imagined stabbing. ↗

— Kate Madison

#memoir #pencils #stabbing #imagination

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. ↗

— Derek Landy

#anything-is-possible #apple #everything-is-possible #gravity #inevitability

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#inspirational #ownership #resourcefulness #responsibility #self-help

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. ↗

— Washington Irving

#the-mutability-of-literature #writers #writing #inspirational

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#desire #establishment #expansion #extensive #public

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#enough #establishes #failure #only #our

when building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path. ↗

— Peter Adejimi

#breakup #enemy #friendship #love #friendship

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#afflicted #comfort #comfortable