#though

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. ↗

— James Meade

#douglas #economics #expression #gradually #major

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#always #argentina #changed #did #dream

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate. ↗

— Jack Markell

#businesses #decide #executive #experience #governor

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#again #audience #how #i #i do

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#because #get #i #like #lips

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cannot #coming #door #dream #dreaming

Virginity can be lost by a thought. ↗

— St. Jerome

#thought #virginity

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#east #going #how #know #middle

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#mind #possession #prized #quality #state

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#ashamed #country #i #i think #means