#ge

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ↗

— Freya Stark

#awaken #quite #sensations #strange #town

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#based #change #conservatism #idea #leave

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of. ↗

— Michael Chang

#continue #feel #going #i #i feel

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#biggest thing #cheap #elephant #say #thing

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market. ↗

— James Chanos

#always #aspect #balances #bones #checks

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#everyone #guthrie #heroes #like #musical

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#gentleman #indulges #vice #who

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#adventure #always #dreamer #fellow #gentleman

You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#comes #games #get #play #ring