#rift

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#extravagance #go #hand #owe #seldom

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#how #income #large #people #realize

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#character #create #industry #self-control #sought

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#before #claim #coming #constantly #every

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#almost #became #drama #drifted #film

Thrift is of great revenue. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#revenue #thrift

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#civic #decline #drifting #effectiveness #fall

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#bordering #commonly #drift #graze #meet