#rent

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#always #clean #creating #delta #different

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. ↗

— Angela Davis

#arise #between #certain #contributions #current

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. ↗

— Bette Davis

#child #hated #never #parent #you

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well. ↗

— Eric Davis

#cancer #different #happen #i #just

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#change #different #go #people #reality

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #catch #different #face #fool

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#believe #children #credit #i #lend

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#beings #different #doing #done #future

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#different people #had #i #lot #myself

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#been #clear #communicating #easy #fact