#hem

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#children #focal #focal point #i #life

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#depends #describe #dig #digging #down

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#disease #form #frustrating #i #legs

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff. ↗

— Gary Webb

#anything #believe #especially #government #important

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days. ↗

— William Tyndale

#any #came #confirm #council #days

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#ambition #bad #character #depends #direct

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#how #i #know #learn #me

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#china #consider #know #known #long

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#baseball #baseball game #clock #explained #football