#ally

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#disputing #generally #get #good #more

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#article #because #finds #focus #fun

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. ↗

— Michael Franti

#always #bones #break #exhilaration #felt

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music. ↗

— Michael Franti

#against #angry #clap #dance #gaza

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#arts #departments #distinct #equally #expression

We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#behind #dancing #front #get #gets

We used to really feel like the band was our family. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#family #feel #like #our #really

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#doing #enjoy #i #nonfiction #really

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#globally #locally #may #out #suffer

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#american #american family #any #anything #doing