#hips

Partnerships are good engines for narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#good #narrative #partnerships

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.
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— Jarod Kintz

#children #family #father #favorite #only-child

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses. ↗

— Alexandra Ivy

#family-relationships #family

I see uncool people! ↗

— Tonya Hurley

#funny #humor-relationships #love #funny

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value. ↗

— Evan Davis

#aerospace #because #britain #british #cars

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #divorce #dying #god #grief

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

#cause #distress #elsewhere #endure #fortitude

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#ask #chips #conviction #deep #deep conviction

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#captain #cook #down #during #exploration

They realized that, in fact, the lie wasn't safe. That it threatened their existence more profoundly than the truth did. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#relationships #truth #beauty