#otto

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world. ↗

— Joseph Mitchell

#buyer #buyers #considered #cotton #dad

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance. ↗

— Ben Cohen

#power #social-entrepreneurship #triple-bottom-line #business

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful ↗

— William Shakespeare

#art

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. ↗

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#bottoms #completion #women #art

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#bottom #detailed #happening #how #i

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #death

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#motto #death

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#perseverance #death

I'll join you when Hell freezes over," said Neville. "Dumbledore's Army!" he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort's Silencing Charms seemed unable to hold. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death