#prop

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#endangers #hands #nation #property #remain

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly. ↗

— Adnan Pachachi

#could #country #function #properly #these

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #inverse #involved #item #proportion

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#first #job #library #local #prophecy

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #happiness #intended #pain #pleasure

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. ↗

— Keith Miller

#bible #get #giving #god #good

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#hardest #hundred #life #proposition #tough

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth? ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#did #ethical #every #every night #go

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even