#han

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#changes #come #conscience #demands #form

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#appears #comes #languages #man #many

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it. ↗

— Dane Cook

#because #comedy #i #i can #i do

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution. ↗

— Scott Cook

#facet #financial #financial services #money #nature

Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#had #josie #more #needed #offer

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement. ↗

— Scott Cook

#care #more #more people #people #retirement

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it. ↗

— Tim Cook

#change #culture #excellence #going #i

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. ↗

— John Thorn

#april #baseball #because #contrast #dared

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#genius #likely #mediocrity #more #rise

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#customs #life #life