#elf

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#child #eyes #give #helped #i

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#i #i see #more #mother #myself

You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#baghdad #bomber #day #deploy #exactly

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#compromise #disconnect #left #limit #only

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself. ↗

— John Frusciante

#like #outwit #protect #something #thing

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#economic #enlightened #everyone #exercise #new

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#chemistry #contribution #earth #energy #fear

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#anything #before #considered #dancer #else

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it. ↗

— Nomar Garciaparra

#game #individual #inspiration #itself #player

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Mary Garden

#door #else #really #room #shut