#kin

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#beginning #brings #confined #every #had

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#authors #avoid #being #black #fiction

A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#am #asking #extremely #fuss #going

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#business #i #i am #kind #miss

These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#border #canadian #criminals #enforcement #ever

I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to. ↗

— John Hawkes

#any #character #figure #find #i

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes? ↗

— Sarah Ferguson

#behavior #day #did #felt #hair

There's no taking trout with dry breeches. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#taking #trout

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#absurdity #audience #climbs #constantly #death

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#famous #get #kind #more #papers