"You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it."

-- Kekla Magoon

#Choices Quotes #Action Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.”

Source : James Monroe (2006). “The Papers of James Monroe: Selected correspondence and papers, 1776-1794”, Greenwood Publishing Group
“Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.”
“Music is always a commentary on society.”
“Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.”

Source : 1989 Everywoman's Money Book (with Lynne MacFarlane).
“I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.”
“The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.”

Source : Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

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