#chi

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#fail #hard #quite #want #you

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#child #explain #help #inquisitive #more

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#become #children #factual #more #much

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#avail #effective #far #godly #life

Every man should see the birth of his children. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#children #every #every man #his #man

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. ↗

— William Barclay

#any #believe #better #cause #child

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#attached #being #berlin #children #concerned