#hem

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#future #individuals #induce #much #shattering

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#appears #believed #black #born #declaration

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#dreams #go #goals #hard #really

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#been #blind #brother #brothers #dead

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#anything #could #had #hanging #him

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#humans #love #more #most #pets

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#gift #gifts #god #him #i

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#closet #express #free #general #heard

It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently - and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#badly #behaved #differently #girlfriend #guys

I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.' ↗

— Anna Torv

#funny #i #i do #jokes #joking