#ding

Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc. ↗

— Thomas Spence

#books #cultural #cultural issues #etc #including

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm. ↗

— John Astin

#feedback #feeling #get #gets #give

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. ↗

— James Allen

#gravitate #heart #his #man #responding

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#appears #beneath #career #during #feet

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#back #bruce #bruce springsteen #california #called

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#anything #believe #full #i #including

I'm good at reading people. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#i #people #reading

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#get #guiding #indians #just #long

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. ↗