#out

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#about #childhood #decisions #head #i

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#complicated #context #fact #issue #opinions

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#cause #check #english #id #immigration

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#male-female-relationships #southern-women #humor

I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#i #out #parties

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty #love #youth #age

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#contrary #know #miracles #nature #only

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. ↗