#sting

Being a shrinking city and a quintessential modern site in flux, Detroit is a testing ground for experimentation and rethinking. ↗

— Luis A. Croquer

#cities #detroit #experimentation #flux #rethinking

Winter is coming. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#mottos #winter #games

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#future-plans #mistakes

The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and they're pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody's be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#interesting #life #life

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#kel #kill

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#lasting #pleasure #temporary #pleasure

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#school #testing #death

Beware the ides of March. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#foreshadowing #julius-ceasar #warning #shakespeare

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #bright #bright future #feel #future

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. ↗

— John Russell

#interesting #madness #more #sanity