#ops

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#drink #food #furnish #head #liquids

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#hands #i #i see #itself #like

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#iraq #long #long time #make #make no mistake

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#cook #counter #decorate #duck #granite

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#clueless #dating #financial #people #seminars

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber. ↗

— Frank Crane

#dread #fiber #gives #manhood #most

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again. ↗

— Walter Crane

#again #against #certainly #charge #could

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#american #british #chinese #continuance #efforts

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete. ↗

— John Culberson

#convinced #going #i #iraq #keeping

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#boston #composed #did #done #ever