#wil

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off. ↗

— Steven Brust

#direct #every #i #i think #more

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style. ↗

— Steven Brust

#blades #cramp #his #how #knife

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly. ↗

— John Bruton

#cooperate #fairly #feel #happen #non-proliferation

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#for the people #history #i #i can #me

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#body #countless #deaths #find #grain

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#bad #department #fail #having #invest

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#aware #difficult #dream #match #playing

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. ↗

— James Buchan

#assertive #commodities #crude #crude oil #dictation

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#another #answer #away #being #does

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. ↗

— James Buchan

#doubt #empire #fall #more #much