#sign

You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you. ↗

— Philip Roth

#truth #equality

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago. ↗

— Jack Adams

#chicago #heavy #i

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle. ↗

— Natalie Taylor

#sign-of-life #single-parenting #love

We do see significant signs of a slowdown, in the economy worldwide. ↗

— Marek Belka

#see #significant #signs #worldwide

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#cute #label #little #little girls #other

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#clothes #designers #fantasy #fashion #i

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#designers #fickle #i #minute #never

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. ↗

— Mark Twain

#flatter #friends #getting #getting old #how

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#husband #i #mutual #pact #sign

Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#frequently #gives #having #market #need