#happen

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. ↗

— George Saunders

#anyway #care #caring #dedicate #happen

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #conflict #control #droughts #earthquakes

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#book #commentary #disappointed #front #happened

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#appeal #becoming #been #certain #certain ways

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#doing #experience #happens #i #learning

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#death #down #even #everybody #family

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#been #had #happened #i #i think

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#events #guess #happen #i #important

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#between #bring #competition #fierce #get