#venting

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#finding #future #key #out #preventing

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#fulfilling #iraq #our #possibilities #preventing

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#being #communication #concealing #defense #hiding

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #community #crime #established #fighting

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#demonstration #exclusively #formality #preventing #questioning

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#apply #around #been #club #created

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#i #i love #inventing #love #scenarios

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries