#equate

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#embarrassment #give #hardy #housing #men

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#changed #chemically #disappear #equate #express

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good. ↗

— Henry Knox

#between #congress #essential #general #general good

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#focused #health #left #maternal #maternal health

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. to be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies - unconscious strategies- to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too - sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling - and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person. You know how in couples one person is always doing all the weeping or the raging while the other one seems so calm and reasonable? I understood that feelings were difficult for me although I was overwhelmed by them. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#avoidance #feelings #inadequate #life #living-life

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#because #becomes #conceived #continues #contradicts

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#adequately #bother #die #fully #head

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. ↗

— Evan Parker

#being #does #i #i think #imitated

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#content #form #hopelessly #inadequate #questions

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#adequate #bargain #coal #collectively #come