#ivan

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ↗

— George Adam Smith

#conspiracy #contrivance #conversation #diversion #ends

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#ivan #miles #vorkosigan #maturity

I've hoped for this for so many years, waited for someone to come along whom you could finally love more than your family, someone who would turn you inside-out and toss you off your path,' His mother looked positively gleeful in the face of his misery. 'Someone just like Nicola for you to blow it with. ↗

— Bella Andre

#mary-sullivan #family

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#expect #government #human #human wisdom #people

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#anything #being #ever #i #scott

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. ↗

— Robert Englund

#contrivance #freddy #get #get together #going

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world. ↗

— Henry Fonda

#cope #end #end of the world #had #happened

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie. ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#got #license #lie #new #new york

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart ↗

— Helen Keller

#emotions #feelings #beauty

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#becomes #contrivance #each #every #human