#esp

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#desire #despair #fear #fierce #had

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#anybody #excuse #expects #higher #higher standard

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#despise #fatigue #great #habit #pain

I believe in people, especially suffering people. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#especially #i #i believe #i believe in #people

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#appeals #especially #few #friends #just

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#cities #especially #fitted #into #land

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#destiny #extent #fail #god #legacy