#chan

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#before #change #dire #economy #far

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#arrangement #business #called #derive #friendship

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#color #dead #elvis #him #i

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#chance #god #heads #i #idea

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#margaret-stohl #beauty

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#change #feeling #how #past #people

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#brief #brief moment #change #comes #embodiment

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#appointed #budget #changes #congressional #even

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#away #best #chance #doing #far

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play. ↗

— Jay Asher

#future #play #rewind #secret #stop