"Putting together a really strong unifying team was an absolute condition. When that fell away, I think that Michael [Gove] felt things had changed."

-- Dominic Raab

#Strong Quotes #Team Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and innocent bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in your orchard. If they thrive (as they must needs if your gardiner be skilfull, and love them: for they love their friends and hate none but their enemies) they will besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages; yea the increase of twenty stock of stools with other bees, will keep your orchard.”

Source : William Lawson, Simon Harward (1927). “A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole commonwealth, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use. Their virtues, seasons, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots, for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty eight years labour”
“Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.”
“First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that's how I got to know the people 'half in' the society of my high school and we waved at each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes.”
“I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.”
“For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.197, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.”

Source : "Questionable Content". Webcomic by Jeph Jacques, Number 430, questionablecontent.net. 2003-2005.
“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
“You may glory in a team triumphant... But you fall in love with a team in defeat.”

Source : Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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