#wards

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#clock #digital #every #every time #hands

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#desires #does #domestic #his #honest

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#bunch #complacent #cowards #deadly #dismiss

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#afterwards #any #death #die #first

The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#different #rewards #very

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#company #connection #data #element #ensuring

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#athletes #carefully #go #goal #many

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#doing #goals #moving #then #towards

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#case #choice #difficult #even #expression

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh