#happens

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. ↗

— Paul Auster

#any #being #believe #controlling #demoralizing

It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. ↗

— James Bovard

#aware #because #constitution #government #happens

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#live #method #restructure #see #some

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#disclose #even #happens #nothing #search

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#advertising #agencies #criticism #happens #ignorance

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them. ↗

— William Scott

#certain #happens #homer #students #them

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day. ↗

— Nate Silver

#happens #lot #nothing #time

You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn't know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and thanked God they were in your life. After they were gone? That was all you thought about. Day and night. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#loss #love #shit-happens #suck-it-up #life

I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around, put in a new rug. No, the furniture was new, too. There was a woman on the couch. She looked all right. Young. Good legs. Blonde. 'Hello,' I said, 'care for a beer?' 'Hi!' she said. 'All right, I'll have one.' 'I like the way this place is fixed up,' I told her. 'I did it myself.' 'But why?' 'I just felt like it,' she said. We each drank at the beer. 'You're all right,' I said. I put my beercan down and gave her a kiss. I put my hand on one of her knees. It was a nice knee. Then I had another swallow of beer. 'Yes,' I said, 'I really like the way this place looks. It's really going to lift my spirits.' 'That's nice. My husband likes it too.' 'Now why would your husband...What? Your husband? Look, what's this apartment number?' '309.' '309? Great Christ! I'm on the wrong floor! I live in 409. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#change

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency. ↗

— William Shatner

#better #better idea #frequency #got #happens