#rises

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#surprises #life

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #surprises #life

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#running

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that. ↗

— Shania Twain

#big #crises #deep #disappointments #emotional

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#balance #being #compassion #connection #considering

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ↗

— Lord Byron

#feathers #highly #men #nothing #quicker

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#first #goalkeeper #i #i tried #more

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#area #biggest #biggest thing #boston #grew

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. ↗

— Chanakya

#books #confined #his #knowledge #need

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial