#wards

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand. ↗

— Jack Welch

#biggest #cowards #got #know #managers

From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales. ↗

— Allen West

#became #blockbuster #day #holiday #last

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in. ↗

— Timothy West

#being #brought #chamberlain #court #end

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#gravitate #had #i #i think #life

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure. ↗

— Sophocles

#alone #rewards #secure #virtue

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#i #i do #movies #smaller #sort

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#gravitate #i #i do #mean #personally

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#get #i #i can #i write #know

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#come #downwards #even #habit #inorganic

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#beauty #before #bridge #end #exist