"A lot of the time nothing happens in a day."

-- Nate Silver

#Things Happen Quotes

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”
“You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouragingâ€¦ They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.”

Source : "Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.
“What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?”

Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”
“Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.”
“Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.”
“Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.”
“The nature of faith is that it must be tried.”
“It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.”

Source : Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

You may also like:

David Leonhardt
Editor
David Plouffe
Political strategist
Donald Trump
Investor
Donna Brazile
Author
Ezra Klein
Journalist
Gary Johnson
Former Governor of New Mexico
Hillary Clinton
Former United States Secretary of State
Larry Sabato
Political Scientist
Paul Krugman
Economist