#tina

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#micawber #procrastination #classics

He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#gabriel-rossetti #lizzie-siddal #poetry #pre-raphaelite #dreams

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #looking-back #past #path #symbols

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#become #companies #creates #global #good

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#anything #buy #com #consumers #destination

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bigot #entertain #obstinately #opinion #who

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#control #corporations #destroying #division #entertainment

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#because #bit #deal #down #fragment

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#big #chief #destination #difference #early

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted. ↗

— William Cobbett

#adopted #generally #integrity #men #obstinate