#domestic

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#passion #tear #veil #violence #life

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#bit #blur #by the time #came #daughter

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#campaigns #depend #domestic #harassment #image

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#big #biotechnology #bright #bright future #centralized

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. ↗

— Larry Elder

#domestic #economy #everybody #fewer #government

Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year. ↗

— Mark Foley

#reached #spending #travel #trillion #year

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#domestic #focus #great #home #house

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #by the time #domestic #done #faded

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#been #domesticated #history #horse #horses

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#emerges #georgian #hardly #most #remarkable