#hi

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits. ↗

— Seal

#bits #everything #first #first of all #funny

I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#american family #been #country #crisis #definition

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back. ↗

— Junior Seau

#because #brothers #dad #giving #giving back

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency. ↗

— Junior Seau

#comes #consistency #fabricated #fool #guys

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#concern #encapsulate #first #glance #quite

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians. ↗

— John Sebastian

#does #good #i #i think #me

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#capacity #climate #every #his #man

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. ↗

— Thomas Secker

#forever #persons #repent #some #then

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#am #another #because #could #first

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#another #called #establishment #fortune #gives