#our

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. ↗

— Mary Astell

#honour #ill #love #neither #nor

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves. ↗

— Mary Astell

#conduct #direct #fit #good #govern

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #born #fit #happiness #happy

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind. ↗

— Mary Astell

#any #convincing #ever #hearts #mind

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. ↗

— John Astin

#called #complex #conventional #could #deep

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ↗

— Sean Astin

#eating #finish #four #goal #hardest

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#boat #clothes #crew #crew members #four

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #distinct #good-humoured #man #orders

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#five #four #i #many #opposites

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city. ↗

— Alan Autry

#city #continue #earned #endorsement #ensure