#suit

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. ↗

— Hu Shih

#began #chinese #chinese people #contacts #country

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#first #happened #i #marriage #rebound

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#good #imposing #looks #only #suits

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#government #suits #design

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#phantom-menace #pursuit #science-fiction #star-wars #dreams

There is nothing crazy about a dream. There is nothing crazy about pursuing your dreams. ↗

— Destin Bays

#dreams #pursuit-of-happiness #true-love-in-time #dreams

And that was true. As the other world experience faded she found herself left with little that she had not known before; there was nothing really that the stark, simple teaching of the Methodist faith did not cover. She had never heard of the Jesuit who said, "Give me a child until he is seven and after that you may do what you like with him", but she was living proof of his theory's validity." Damask Greenway ↗

— Norah Lofts

#faith #jesuit #methodist #experience