#tree

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from. ↗

— Timothy Dexter

#eating #hog #like #looking #man

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. ↗

— Robert Doisneau

#daily #daily life #director #exciting #find

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see. ↗

— David Douglas

#man #much #see #spectacle #these

I never realized that growing up in Brooklyn, flying jets, working on Wall Street and starring in a sci-fi series was the prerequisite for the fast-paced demands of talk radio. But, if that's what it takes to succeed, I'm glad I did it all. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#demands #did #fast-paced #flying #glad

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion. ↗

— Michael Ende

#even #everyone #everything #fashion #her

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#coming #cut #died #garden #great

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though! ↗

— Dennis Franz

#culture #felt #i #impact #love

We were taking out mortgages we couldn’t afford because they were camouflaged to look as if we had a reasonable chance of paying them back. Banks then changed the bankruptcy laws so that we could not get out of our obligations once the rates changed. Lastly, they sold us back our own mortgages, shifting back to us any of the risk through our money-market accounts and pension funds. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#wall-street #change

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#democracy #end #era #example #failed

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#before #believed #crime #department #every