#tract

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#crime #duty #government #preserve #prevent

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#benefited #country #never #protracted #war

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#been #big #big thing #come #cool

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#building #contractor #day #dream #him

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#contract #cut #i #incredible #later

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#answer #appearance #attention #certain #distraction

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#because #chelsea #different #easy #enjoy

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#i #mean #read #really #thoroughly

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like. ↗

— Michael Michele

#been #cheerleader #emphasis #face #front