#rin

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choice #constants #principles #three

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#i #i think #ignoring #put #show

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#call #during #game #makes #notice

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#better #better world #days #during #enough

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#blood #drawing #during #emergency #faint

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#complaining #could #death #enemy #fought

The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again. ↗

— Hansie Cronje

#book #caught #edition #end #fortunately

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside. ↗

— Bonnie Hunt

#growing-older #inspiring #life #looks #mark-harmon

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#adult life #america #contempt #had #i