#chase

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#chase #chasing #going #i #live

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#cut #dialogue #i #i think #keeps

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ↗

— Adam Smith

#first #gold #labour #money #original

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#books #costly #fix #how #market

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#budget #chases #close #dog #engaging

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#come #easy #effort #joy #premium

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #appropriation #books #buy #buying

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#age

You’re nothing but an aging sad cliché and I don’t want any part of it anymore. You’ll wind up right here, in a room just like this, twenty years from now paying for what I’ve been giving you for free from someone even younger than I am right now. Only you’ll be twenty years older and nothing more than a broken down image of the man you used to be. Good luck with that. ↗

— Ryan Field

#jim-darling #m-m-romance #age

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#beauty