#ily

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#been #conflict #constantly #family #family life

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#about #am #best #both #closest

Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#bottom #distributes #down #entire #evenly

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. ↗

— Albert Claude

#achieve #action #asleep #awake #cells

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#believe #best #contrary #first #friends

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#best #first #friends #got #i

I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#break #daily #happy #i #i am

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#first #friend #i #internal #learned

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#expect #family #got #know #like

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bmw #family #get #gratification #i