#entered

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#centered #children #control #cruise #getting

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#america #amity #century #community #concluding

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#narcissism #paranoia #self-centeredness #imagination

Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#selfishness #sensitiveness #stoicism #respect

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bright #civic #contentment #entered #i

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with. ↗

— Patricia Arquette

#i #life #marriage #neither #person

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#army #decided #entered #had #i

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#beginning #chemistry #couple #creek #dawson

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold. ↗

— John Buford

#back #before #drive #enemy #entered

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#i think #leads #nature #often #self-centered