#non

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' ↗

— Mitch Albom

#always #characters #column #core #find

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.' ↗

— Mitch Albom

#book #chapter #characters #get #going

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#change #conflict #friction #means #movement

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road. ↗

— Charles L. Allen

#christian #found #gone #none #right

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#borders #business #corresponding #dramatic #eating

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#bar #better #does #everything #hell

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#experience #human #human experience #i #none

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american life #background #journalism #life #noise

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#authority #day #decade #defiance #established

As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#conditions #convinced #forces #government #homeland