#versus

During those days Fingerbone was strangely transformed. If one should be shown odd fragments arranged on a silver tray and be told, "That is a splinter from the True Cross, and that is a nail paring dropped by Barabbas, and that is a bit of lint from under the bed where Pilate's wife dreamed her dream," the very ordinariness of the things would recommend them. Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves, and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#dreams

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last. ↗

— James Chanos

#cent #economy #eye #growing #healthcare

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ↗

— Lord Acton

#long #long term #losers #short #short term

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#answer #because #big #big budget #bigger

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play. ↗

— Dar Williams

#like #play #scene #song #versus

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#got #license #lie #new #new york

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#climate #due #i #i can #i think

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#class warfare #country #creating #false #first

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man. ↗

— Roy Moore

#between #discrepancy #got #here #i

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie. ↗

— Mike Myers

#every #growing #him #his #i