#ions

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ↗

— Irving Kristol

#conditions #democracy #does #guarantee #guarantees

The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#attitude-toward-life #dictate #dictates #energy #negative

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#never #ones #passions #private #public

Jill had three basic statements about life, 1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary. 2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. 3. No one ever said that life was fair. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#family #friendship #home #inspitational #life

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#conversations #crazy #encouraging #father #found

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#choosing #closing #elections #ranks #sides

Listening to Eddy describe his relationship with our mom seemed to indicate that what I feared would be my reality. He never talked poorly about our mother, but he was as honest and sincere as he could be. In a way, he was almost defensive of her to us – trying to help us understand what life had been like for her, so that we could comprehend the choices that she had made. ↗

— Janet Louise Stephenson

#birth-mother #dysfunctional-relationships #family-drama #family

The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #gun-violence #love #meg-kavanagh

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. ↗

— Abraham Kuyper

#bare #battle #become #before #begin

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#intentions #results #art