#oda

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#act #clarity #dare #extreme #future

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course. ↗

— George Saunders

#aspirations #books #could #course #each

There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know. ↗

— Jack Scalia

#greatness #kids #know #many #today

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#going #happen #just #life #long

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#bad #because #does #good #itself

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#glory #hell #here #looks #many

The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#bit #celebrity #course #days #different

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic. ↗

— Bobby Short

#even #opera #position #problematic #tenor

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#difference #go #i #know #leave

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again. ↗

— Joe Simon

#again #away #book #comic #comic book