"There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless."

-- Odell Shepard

#People Quotes #Hopeless Quotes #Strive Quotes

“Act confident, even when you're not.”
“I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.”
“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel â€“ a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”

Source : Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.
“You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.”
“The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.”
“Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.”
“I always wake up at the crack of ice.”
“There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.”

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