#erin

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#endless #our #sin #suffer #suffering

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job. ↗

— Kit Bond

#battalions #called #did #engineering #floor

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#dr #everything #far #few #had

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#crisis #day #dc #film #get

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#events #i #realized #reporter #sports

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. ↗

— Christie Brinkley

#crash #fall #helicopter #i #love

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#animosity #appears #me #nursing #registering

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#case #court #days #decision #equated