#things

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#being #chance #going #good #good chance

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#any #attributed #believe #columns #day

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#always #american #american society #argue #because

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#anyone #anything #book #composition #country

It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#away #benefit #character #eventually #long

I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#beach #being #dollars #even #five

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#design #ever #i #loved #making

I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#anymore #get #i #little #myself