#ether

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#law #lose #nothing #unproductive #whether

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn. ↗

— Paula Yates

#bathroom #collecting #ever #family #father

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. ↗

— Trey Parker

#goodbye #how #left #matters #mean

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great. ↗

— Trey Parker

#every #great #i #i love #knows

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#appearance #buffalo #cannot #emigrants #four

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#i #i think #like #man #small

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#brought #just #justice #may #must

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#applied #bears #bound #category #does

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#before #book #finish #i #sell

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything. ↗

— George Pataki

#after #anything #appreciation #ever #freedom