#charge

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet. ↗

— David Dinkins

#children #even #haven #i #met

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#before #both #broken #charges #common

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. ↗

— Edward VIII

#carry #discharge #duties #found #heavy

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people. ↗

— John Boehner

#american people #called #charge #come #country

To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that. ↗

— Lynndie England

#because #been #charged #doing #everything

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#discharged #express #food #gratitude #hand

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command. ↗

— William Falconer

#being #certainly #charge #chief #command

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#any #charges #domestic #happened #i

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. ↗

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#life

You are a child of God, and that alone makes you worthy of care and love. If your guard is up, let it down. If you’ve constructed a defensive wall to protect yourself and keep all the bad guys out, don’t forget who that wall also prevents from getting in—the good guys. From THE CHARGE: http://ow.ly/bcBd5 ↗

— Brendon Burchard

#the-charge #love