#thing

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#according #change #done #fast #faster

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he ↗

— Walter Bower

#same-thing #sick #sickness #wolf #change

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote. ↗

— Megan Gallagher

#carter #chris #i #willing #wrote

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. ↗

— Albert Camus

#nothing-ever-changes #politics #the-sad-truth #change

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#exist #literally #made #maker #means

Juk smulkmenų ir įvairių detalių taifūne taip lengva pasimesti, paprasčiausiai atidėti į šoną pačius svarbiausius dalykus gyvenime, kai esi įsitikinęs, jog niekas tokiai, į jokią kitą nepanašiai meilei negresia, o paskui vieną gražią dieną supranti, kad visas tavo gyvenimas pavirto į smulkmeną ir tu, laikui bėgant, tapai visiškai svetimas tam, kurį labiausiai mylėjai. ↗

— Richard Bach

#little-things #love #life

Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#choosing #feel #feelings #heart-and-soul #the-nature-of-things

There’s such a thing as being irritatingly ethical,” said Eldric. “That’s you, right now.” That’s a pleasant change. Witches are rarely accused of being irritatingly ethical. “I’ve swigged.” I handed the bottle to Eldric. “Or is it swug?” “Swug,” said Eldric. “It is in bad-boy circles, at least.” He swug. “It tastes much better outside church.” “It’s the picnic principle,” I said. “Things taste better outdoors. And if it’s a forbidden thing, so much the better. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#forbidden-things #change

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#different thing #girl #man #second #stepmother

I feel like I've been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I've kept pretty stable. That's because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it's only a song. It works for me, and I don't want to change it. I don't have anything left for writing. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#handling-emotion #nothing-left #sam #song #through-a-lot