#times

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#dictionaries #distraction #enough #excellent #impossible

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China. ↗

— John Bruton

#american companies #china #companies #country #indeed

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid. ↗

— James Buchan

#banking #banks #call #cannot #each

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. ↗

— James Buchan

#compound #devastated #disruption #foreign #foreign aid

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#become #face #need #order #sometimes

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#having #just #paranoia #sometimes

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#because #how #idea #lied #many

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#forget #i #i do #just #makeup

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#decision #decisions #difficult #difficult decisions #difficult times

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#flown #folks #half #happening #i