#versa

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #business #come #company #confined

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#assigns #good #man #nature #time

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clever #company #conversation #deal #good

I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#back #been #casual #conversation #divorced

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his

I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#different #different kinds #i #kinds #like

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#between #coast #down #east #east coast

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#i #i think #marry #person #reasons

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#advocating #allies #asking #business #business community

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#business #common #interest #state