#aught

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#books #certain #flashing #generals #irrational

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#born #bred #characteristics #children #country

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#becomes #beginning #caught #coals #fierce

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#daughters #healthy #i #i think #pretty

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cape #daughter #grandson #great #i

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#drop #her #i #off #pick

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#conditional love #dad #expectations #felt #had

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it. ↗

— Courtney Love

#answer #any #ask #big #daughter

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#class #could #guilt #how #induce

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#asked #awe #being #daughter #everyone