#pens

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

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

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lonely #principled #usually

We won't really know what will happen until it happens. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#happens #know #really #until #will

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#human soul #i #indispensable #individual #individual human

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #attach #body #cells #death

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens. ↗

— Karen Allen

#back #come #delighted #feel #film

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine. ↗

— Sean Astin

#cars #convertible #driving #ever #expensive

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens. ↗

— Mike Quade

#around #baseball #fan #go #happens

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#done #move #politics #protect #suspension