#tie

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#behind #buy #i #people #personalities

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#guard #i #probably #salesman #security

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#blunder #correct #democracy #mistakes #new

Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#find #make #men #more #opportunities

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#answers #apply #frontiers #lessons #new

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#about #affected #another #century #conventions

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'. ↗

— Lin Biao

#america #areas #asia #called #cities

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doubt #frontiers #last #only #possible

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure