#ground

sodoyouthinkyoucouldtrustmetogotothedancetonight?" she blurted before losing her nerve. Viktor and Viveka exchanged a quick glance. Are they considering it? They are! They trust - "No," they said together. Frankie resisted the urge to spark. Or scream. Or threaten to go on a charging strike. She had prepared herself for this. It had always been a possibility. That's why she'd read 'Acting For Young Actors: The Ultimate Teenage Guide' by Mary Lou Belli and Dihah Lenney. So she could act like she understood their rejection. Act like she accepted it. And act like she would return to her room with grace. "Well, thanks for hearing me out," she said, kissing them on the cheeks and skipping off to bed. "Good night." "Good night?" Viktor responded. "That's it? No argument?" "No argument," Frankie said with a sweet smile. "You have to see this punishment through or you're not teaching me anything. I get it." "O-kay." Viktor returned to his medical journal, shaking his head as if he couldn't quite believe what he was hearing. "We love you." Viveka blew another kiss. "I love you, too." Frankie blew two back. Time for Plan B. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#manipulation #parents #pleading #refusal #strategy

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#common #common ground #differing #family #find

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#before #bit #business #degree #get

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#chance #depths #drops #emotion #full

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biological #grounding #include #knowledge #laws

It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's. ↗

— Andrew Melville

#earth #ground #i #lord #me

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves. ↗

— Joe Miller

#being #crisis #economic #fiscal #fooling

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#foundation #ground #had #i #only

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words." ↗

— Charles Moore

#any #blacks #both #brother #ever