#things

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#gun #honors #presidency #president #remember

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#exist #happen #i #lot #love

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. ↗

— Virgil

#even #one day #perhaps #pleasing #remember

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#attitude #care #certain #clothes #great

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#even #example #family #family life #good

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#career #designer #fashion #fashion designer #good

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#girl #holes #i #learn #little

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#already #hard #i #keep #learning

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#destroying #die #effectiveness #eventually #everything

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect