#amin

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. ↗

— Anna Freud

#examined #future #live #our #past

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting. ↗

— Fred Frith

#any #everyday #everyday life #examine #feeling

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dreamer #dreaming #his #must #only

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#assure #damage #examine #nasa #orbit

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#actually #around #bought #going #had

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America. ↗

— Robert Stone

#aware #before #blow #dog #everybody

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#animal #better #gaming #get #man

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#any #cute #divine #divine love #drawn

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dreaming #expectations #mind #one thing #self-defeating