#sent

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

#creep #feels #impulse #never #soar

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#feel #inferior #make #without #you

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #romantic #sentimentality #love

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dissent #district- #love

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength. ↗

— Steve Albini

#bands #contract #exact #hundred #label

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. ↗

— Tom Allen

#been #bills #borrowing #cuts #essentially

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#how #i #life #lucky #me

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#intellectuals #me #sentimental #too

'Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#la #latin #livin #music #represent

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#compete #faults #future #generally #got