#things

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#burned #family #family members #get #got

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#change things #changing #enough #good #hard

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#awful #bothered #burns #buy #clothes

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#bishop #bishops #disappoint #even #how

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments. ↗

— Jack White

#bad #best #computers #easily #fix

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people. ↗

— William John Wills

#arts #confined #deep #differently #dispositions

I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#got #i #into #married #more

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#better #better ways #capital #choose #countries

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money? ↗

— Earl Wilson

#doing #future #future generations #generations #here

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#expert #happen #know #predicted #things