#ties

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on. ↗

— Fred L. Turner

#going #need #opportunities #problems #projects

There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year. ↗

— David Milne

#applications #being #company #different #each

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#been #blake #experience #friends #his

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#duties #front #his #inverse #line

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption. ↗

— Mario Monti

#evasion #government #greatest #priorities #tackling

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#humor #music #humor

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#lunch #perspective #priorities #humor

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#environment #environmental-determinism #history #societies #environmentalism

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #cold #coldness #difficulties #discernment

Neighbors are the most indecent sort of folk around. Nothing but voyeurs and gossipers. As a community we would be much better off without them. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #gossiping #humor #neighbors #voyeurism