"Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by."

-- David Wroblewski

#Life Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.”
“Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.”
“Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.”

Source : Statement to the Volksgerichtshof [People's Court] of Judge Roland Freisler, February 21, 1943.
“And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.”
“The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!”
“When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.”
“The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.”

Source : Robert Sherrill (1973). “The Saturday night special: and other guns with which Americans won the West, protected bootleg franchises, slew wildlife, robbed countless banks, shot husbands purposely and by mistake, and killed presidents--together with the debate over continuing same”
“Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.”

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