#lexi

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#always #becomes #demands #every #giving

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful. ↗

— Jim Nussle

#fine #fine line #flexible #line #meaningful

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#been #cant #commercial #commercial world #design

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#asylum #complexion #due #jerusalem #lunatic

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. ↗

— William S. Paley

#complexion #darker #introduce #lies #others

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. ↗

— Michael Palin

#around #believe #complexity #corner #diversity

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#complexities #struggle

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#anyone #believed #china #earlier #else

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#flexibility #hopeful #koreans #little #little bit

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#comprehend #concepts #desired #elementary #few