#ions

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #parents #relationships #faith

Beauty and folly are old companions. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#companions #folly #old

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#deep #emotions #especially #gratitude #least

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#family #family

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#associations #because #channel #generations #had

Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#committee #concluded #consulted #day #every

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#criminal #investigations #obligation #role

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#allow #comic #dramas #expectations #find

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#air #air force #arrived #days #did