#about

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#history #involvement #joke #nation #nothing

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#child #i #labour #only #public

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. ↗

— Amos Oz

#any #anywhere #everyday #everyday people #fanaticism

There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#dogs #knowing #sense #something #street

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant! ↗

— Anna Paquin

#being #being a teenager #everything #feeling #fit

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#acting #i #just #just do it #much

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'. ↗

— Roscoe Bartlett

#better #better off #comfortable #culture #energy

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consequence #feeling #great #immortality #indifferent

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#concentrate #i #me #other #preparing