#ect

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. ↗

— Maggie Kuhn

#expect #least #listen #may #say

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#choosing #closing #elections #ranks #sides

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #life

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#brain #clearly #common #constructs #created

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#any #back #back up #business #care

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#bigger #done #films #i #integrity

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#first #happy #means #object #perfect

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#creative #dynamic #effects #genuine #however

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#great #i #illusions #respectable #work