#met

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#america #american #american writers #country #feel

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Robert Half

#more #much #rarer #recognize #scarce

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#screwed #something #sometimes #things #you

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#anchor #direction #drift #find #great

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#brief #could #count #even #important

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#become #count #excited #get #happens

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.' ↗

— Studs Terkel

#democratic #each #hear #i #i think

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#biologically #book #community #community action #happens

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players. ↗

— John Terry

#being #fines #go #goes #helping

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices. ↗

— Randall Terry

#behaviors #choice #choices #control #feelings