#ms

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#generally #men #more #than #themselves

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#made #make #parents #sometimes #themselves

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#diverted #jest #least #most #others

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#lay #least #most #observation #observe

While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering. ↗

— Mike Ross

#bring #common-sense #confront #constant #craft

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#disaster #leaving #morally #reprehensible #un-american

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#compare #correction #distance #earthquakes #i

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. ↗

— Charles Richter

#extraordinary #good #ordinary #ordinary situations #situations

This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#job-searching #joblessness #jobs #middle-class #dreams