Quotes of Studs Terkel

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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

- Studs Terkel

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“ I've always kept one emotional suitcase packed. With you, I live out of one, every day, and I keep a cab on speed dial. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt