#quo

When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#any #each #faster #feels #fill

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#grew #grown #having #i #knew

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#described #east #faction #making #many

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#being #book #close #columns #couple

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#experience #grave #growth #joy #life

If you do goodness, do it in the name of goodness, not in the name of a religion! All goodnesses should be nameless! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#religion

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#death

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#interesting-quotes #life #death

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#better #bigger #dissatisfaction #feels #ferment