#tory

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #complaints #enough #first #going

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#like #myself #please #read #started

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#any #blast #blows #firmly #set

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. ↗

— David Ives

#discriminatory #elitist #lists #print #small

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#daydreamer #geography #head #history #i

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#cold #cold war #going #had #history

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#against #knows #man #stream #strength

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#common #destiny #ever #face #friends

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ↗

— Aristotle

#conquers #count #desires #hardest #him

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ↗

— Aristotle

#finer #history #more #only #particular