#other

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#basically #chapter #come #end #lot

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior," he said. "You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. ↗

— Chuck Colson

#cannot #ends #i #illegal #important

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. ↗

— Don Young

#constitution #disservice #federal #federal government #few

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan. ↗

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

#am #confident #government #i #i am

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. ↗

— L.R. Knost

#children #inspirational-quotes #motherhood #parenting #age

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#mother #parent-aging #age

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.... ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#lateness #lesson-for-life #age

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. ↗

— Jack Youngblood

#circumstances #doing #done #enough #find

I usually enjoy setting up a new kitchen, but this has become a joyless and highly charged task. My mother and I each have our own set of kitchen boxes, which means that if there are two cheese graters between us, only one will make it into a cupboard. The other will be put back in a box or given to Goodwill. Each such little decision has the weight of a Middle East negotiation. While her kitchenware is serviceable, I’m a sucker for the high end: All-Clad saucepans and Emile Henry pie dishes. Before long, I’m shaking my head at pretty much everything my mother removes from her San Diego boxes. She takes each rejected item as a personal slight – which in fact it is. I begrudge her even her lightweight bowls, which she can lift easily with her injured hand. Here she is, a fragile old woman barely able to bend down as she peers into a low cupboard, looking for a place where she can share life with her grown daughter. At such a sight my heart should be big, but it’s small, so small that when I see her start stuffing her serving spoons into the same drawer as my own sturdy pieces, lovingly accumulated over the years, it makes me crazy. Suddenly I’m acting out decades of unvoiced anger about my mother’s parenting, which seems to be materializing in the form of her makeshift collection of kitchenware being unpacked into my drawers. When I became a mother myself, I developed a self-righteous sense of superiority to my mother: I was better than my mother, for having successfully picked myself up and dusted myself off, for never having lain in bed for days on end, too blotto to get my child off to school or even to know if it was a school day. By sheer force of will and strength of character, I believed, I had risen above all that she succumbed to and skirted all that I might have inherited. This, of course, is too obnoxiously smug to say in words. So I say it with flatware. ↗

— Katie Hafner

#mothers-and-daughters #anger

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#door #evil #greater #invariably #lesser