#han

If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#behind #better #care #just #little

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#country #democracy #freedom #gave #greatest

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#based #civilization #continue #found #mankind

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#any #capacity #change #environment #learning

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself. ↗

— Frank Langella

#come #larger #pitting #revelations #something

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. ↗

— John A. Simone, Sr.

#bad #bad situation #good #situation #worry

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#anybody #because #food #hang #i

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#anything #better #classical #else #general

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #design #difficult #followed #out

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#dismiss #feel #flattering #i #i think