#shop

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management. ↗

— George Monbiot

#economics #environment #government #shopping #design

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#country #depressed #different #different way #eat

Monica Sevilla will present the "ePublishing in Education" on November 5, 2o11 at 8am at Mulholland Middle School, Van Nuys. ↗

— Monica Sevilla

#workshop #education

Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens. "Some people understand the value of an education." Hale stretched and crossed his legs, the settled his arm around Kat's shoulders. "That's sweet, Kat. Maybe later I'll buy you a university. And an ice cream." "I'd settle for the ice cream." "Deal. ↗

— Ally Carter

#ally-carter #bishop #carter #hale #heist

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#history #humor #experience

I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping. ↗

— Christy Leigh Stewart

#funny-and-random #shop #shopaholic #shopping #funny

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#shopping #food

‎"Well, It's just painful to see them without nothing to eat and at the same time no God. So let's share our food and our God. ↗

— Jestoni Revealed

#evangelism #god #jesus #jesushope #love

...most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#shopping #food

Anytime you feel like you don't have any work to do, just look around. Look for what God had started doing and ask for his permission to assist him in doing it. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#arcbishop #ask #bishop #christ #clergy