#stan

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time. ↗

— Ray Brown

#changing #constantly #couple #else #go

I can always forgive where I understand. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#understanding #forgiveness

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#cause #constancy #good #obstinacy

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#any #battle #campaigns #character #heat

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#god #i #i believe #i believe that #impossible

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small. ↗

— Zola Budd

#back #changed #few #fuss #happened

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

#believe #cocked #costume #could #deal

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#because #child #could #difficult #favourites