#or

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. ↗

— Edwin W. Edwards

#had #i #law #overzealous #people

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#humor #jo #marriage #siblings #family

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#difficult #how #information #respond #teach

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#energetic #get #i #morning #people

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. ↗

— William Glasser

#connecting #education #eliminating #improve #schooling

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#recognize #see #survivor #you

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided? ↗

— John Edwards

#country #divided #ever #more #president

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#deceived #discoveries #down #elevation #external

They may be a little more high brow than we are. ↗

— David Talbot

#high #little #may #more #than

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate. ↗

— Victor Pelevin

#words #life