#z

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

— Steven Brust

#blades #cramp #his #how #knife

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#core #increase #inner #international #peace

Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days. ↗

— James Buchan

#barrel #benighted #days #dependent #europe

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#black #booze #label #plan #pure

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#civilization #deserted #fear #helpless #make

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#capitalize #comes #expect #prepare #worst

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#go #insane #just #weren

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#go #i #insane #just #laugh

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#down #hear #i #know #listener

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen