#peri

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return. ↗

— Otto Frank

#death #experiences #had #hopeful #lots

Obamacare. Get rid of it. Period. ↗

— Tim Scott

#obamacare #period #rid

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. ↗

— Fred Frith

#certain #changed #exactly #friends #i

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart. ↗

— Dan Gable

#biggest #heart #kid #period #shape

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#alike #beings #contemporary #human #human beings

To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it works at all. Life occurs in moments. You get into college. You propose. You get the job. You get cancer. You get fired. She leaves you...Because I was born in a stable country at a stable time, I falsely extrapolated that change is incremental. But if you zoom out just a little bit, you see that life is soccer, not basketball. It’s revolution, invention, war. It’s big bangs, exploding stars, asteroids killing the dinosaurs. Which means that all the action is in the risk taking, whether I want it to be or not. ↗

— Joel Stein

#change

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world. ↗

— Joseph Mitchell

#buyer #buyers #considered #cotton #dad

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#action #capacity #exists #mind #superior

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. ↗

— Edward Young

#joys #remedies #superior #weak #wisdom

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#anyway #choose #equality #favor #freedom