#other

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ↗

— Shane Leslie

#another #day #every #find #goes

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers. ↗

— James Levine

#actually #care #caring #family #fathers

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#century #creative #creative works #data #inaccessible

Life is just one damned thing after another. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#another #damned #just #just one #life

You are always a little bit wrong ↗

— Hank Green

#life #vlogbrothers #wrong #life

It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on the sexual life when delivered by those who have shunned it. Given the way that the Church forbids women to preach, this point is usually made about men. But given how much this Church allows the fanatical Mother Teresa to preach, it might be added that the call to go forth and multiply, and to take no thought for the morrow, sounds grotesque when uttered by an elderly virgin whose chief claim to reverence is that she ministers to the inevitable losers in this very lottery. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#church #mother-teresa #sexual-life #life

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment. ↗

— Robert Barany

#also #course #experiment #had #i

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#silence #life

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#consist #feedback #guitar #just #may

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#happiness #love #misery #mother #sadness