#tom

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#hasn #looks #provided #she #stomach

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#bad #bad manners #because #better #condition

Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there. ↗

— Nancy O'Dell

#go #i #marc #me #pool

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. ↗

— Phil Crosby

#certain #change #exist #form #planning

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#adult #bottom #chickens #child #did

Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible. ↗

— Hermann Oberth

#barely #brightly #discernible #educational #forward

It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden. ↗

— David Obey

#burden #care #cost #customer #else

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

#bosses #bottom #change #for the people #lords

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. ↗

— William Odom

#bottom #case #command #control #general

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— Babatunde Olatunji

#gift #history #mystery #present #today