#thing

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#already #classes #day #doing #feedback

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #being #black #did #difficult

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#believing #chastity #christian #christian religion #deadly

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#health #his #lose #man #money

In law, nothing is certain but the expense. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#certain #expense #law #nothing

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#same #silence #tact #thing

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#may #nothing #truth #whole

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#entire #nothing #thought #unless #unthinkable

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#before #clear #done #god #him

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#achieve #achievement #course #desires #develop