#tending

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest. ↗

— Frank Knight

#difference #differences #goods #higher #low

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#pretending #fiction

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#good-people #human-nature #hypocrisy #pretending #roles

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. ↗

— Karel Capek

#enslaved #machine #machinery #man #never

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left. ↗

— Julian Clary

#act #away #being #gay #i

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#because #could #critics #else #hurt

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#fatherhood #love #most #present #pretending

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. ↗

— Jones Very

#hamlet #macbeth #next #realities #those

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#become #constitution #convention #convinced #efforts

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#attending #climbing #continue #delaware #delaware state