#cas

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#cash #cheat #get #give #gonna

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. ↗

— George Bentham

#botany #career #decided #determination #devote

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#casualty #correctly #first #i #i remember

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. ↗

— Raymond Berry

#appreciate #back #coming #forward #i

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#even #know #lives #others #ourselves

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is. ↗

— Joseph Bologna

#classic #flavor #fourth #go #hell

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#cast #curtain #falls #fitted #found

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. ↗

— Max Born

#always #been #cases #continuity #happenings

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#average #averages #case #day #good