#ena

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

#sister #teenage-girls #age

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#dreams #love #older #strength #teenagers

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court. ↗

— Ralph Neas

#bush #court #decades #decisions #future

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. ↗

— Don Nickles

#bipartisan #good #i #i think #pass

Staying out of the penalty box will really help. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#help #out #penalty #really #staying

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ↗

— William Osler

#disease #go #patients #phenomena #sail

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#being #cool #go #i #i think

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#close #decade #enacted #fact #federal

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#led #lies #me #secret #solely

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i