#ch

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #william-herondale #change

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#anticipation #be different #channels #considerable #details

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#becomes #difficult #more #suffer #than

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#children #church #concentrate #feel #highest

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. ↗

— David Antin

#character #else #hard #hostage #mouth

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. ↗

— David Antin

#engineer #farmer #i #into #mother

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. ↗

— David Antin

#audience #choice #get #i #language

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. ↗

— Mary Antin

#close #command #congregation #czar #emperor

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bright #civic #contentment #entered #i

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. ↗

— Mary Antin

#cans #cooking #eat #father #first