#doe

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#does #interesting #junction #know #last

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? ↗

— Thomas Chalmers

#fools #how #make #many #public

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#beat #does #door #down #itself

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#does #happiness #idleness #life #only

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple. ↗

— Tim Cook

#apple #does #i #microsoft #pressure

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#19th century #affinity #books #century #does

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. ↗

— Confucius

#does #great #learn #learns #lost

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#does #each #existing #find #him

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#answer #ask #busy #cheerful #course

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#article #be happy #curse #does #dwell