#ok

Futures can and do change, something as simple as you're supposed to turn right down a street one day... In your bones u know it, and yet for reasons no one understands, you decide to debunk fate and go left. Now instead of meeting your spouse of your dreams and having a house full of kids, you get flattened by an ice-cream truck and spend the next 5 years in physical therapy recovering from the injuries; or worse you die from it. And all cause you exercised free will and turned the opposite way on a whim. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#make-you-think #thought-provoking #change

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#being #between #charts #connection #feel

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent. ↗

— Major Taylor

#best #book #discussing #done #experiences

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. ↗

— William Temple

#books #converses #ever #hard #new

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#education #knowledge #education

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#american #american people #books #decency #deep

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#insane #okay

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.' ↗

— Ben Savage

#drink #girl #go #i #like

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#broke #committee #company #ended #fate

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did