#pond

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Russell Baker

#elizabeth #foreign #made #me #queen

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#correspondingly #directly #greater #higher #invested

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#attack #before #bombed #causes #charter

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#call #leaving #respond #spring #things

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#focus #responds #you

Everyone responds to kindness. ↗

— Richard Gere

#kindness #responds

The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice. ↗

— Frank Black

#dumber #female #feminine #half #how

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#acts #after #attacks #civil #civil disobedience

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. ↗

— Richard M. DeVos

#itself #life #meet #our #outlook