#ld

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#away #being #child #dad #family

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#acting #anything #back #because #coming

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#buddhist #close #corpse #drowning #fear

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? ↗

— Augustus Hare

#among #been #children #downward #ever

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#after #children #enough #enthusiasm #fated

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#firm #follow #follows #guiding #having

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#excellent #follow #indeed #modest #none

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#boy #enough #happy #him #know

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#case #cases #cold #court #court cases

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #childhood memories #chocolate #feeling #first