#entered

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#evil #good-intentions #hurt #looking-back #self-centered

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. ↗

— Bill Lee

#better #egotistical #going #guy #more

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#course #enter #entered #environment #factory

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. ↗

— John Moody

#entered #finished #history #new #ohio

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one. ↗

— Karen Morley

#became #because #care #communist #entered

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. ↗

— Rick Perry

#faith #farm #growing #growing up #hard

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#boy #cadet #consulted #corps #eager

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#entered #into #like #needed #our

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth