#most

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#almost #assignment #book #doing #farmer

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#children #daughter #discuss #feels #i

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#allowing #big #cult thing #deserve #difficult

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. ↗

— Stephen King

#almost #beginning #career #little #more

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#hope #inside #least #life #live

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#according #assure #best #capacity #each

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangers #daughters #does #encounter #enlist

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline