#out

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm. ↗

— Susan Smith

#anymore #children #end #felt #good

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck. ↗

— Susan Smith

#bad #car #did #down #end

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#build #era #fitness #govern #his

When I get out... if I get out of here, I hope that maybe we can get back together and have more kids. ↗

— Susan Smith

#get #here #hope #i #i hope that

When I left home, I was going to ride around a little while and then go to my mom's. As I rode and rode and rode, I felt even more anxiety coming upon me about not wanting to live. ↗

— Susan Smith

#anxiety #around #coming #even #felt

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#celebration #contain #even #fact #illusion

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? ↗

— Sydney Smith

#horrors #life #scene #without #would

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

#break #buildings #city #company #event

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#been #born #called #capacity #christmas

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. ↗

— Socrates

#around #comes #each #how #life