#lain

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock! ↗

— Andrew Lo

#black #companies #creating #entire #explain

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#does #explain #less #right #takes

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. ↗

— Walter Lord

#intellectual #just #me #once #personal

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #explain #got

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#complain #funny #got #happens #headline

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#ever #explain #going #i #lemon

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#everyday #explained #need #open #open spaces

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#behind #different #educating #elected #even

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#bordering #commonly #drift #graze #meet