#vale

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ↗

— Robert Collier

#adversity #defeat #equivalent #every #how

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#compromise #concession #conciliation #deemed #equivalent

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#after #attack #believe #first #love

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#come #girlfriends #go #hang #looking

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. ↗

— Lindsay Ellingson

#favorite #holiday #valentine

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#equivalent #observation #thinking

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#before #christmas #clock #closing #day

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

#children #elsewhere #emotions #engaged #feel

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#downside #environment #fertilizer #golf #great