#pare

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever. ↗

— Chester Brown

#parents #relationships #rewarding #satisfying #sexual

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#britain #china #compared #each #four

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer? ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#along #does #fame #goes #happen

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#be prepared #being #being there #blame #city

In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#bread #doctors #feeling #food #fruits

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. ↗

— John Boehner

#best #children #dad #flourish #mom

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#different #different sense #humour #i #sense

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#how #inner #inner world #knowledge #my self

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that? ↗

— Omar Epps

#because #believe #door #going #i

I love both my parents dearly. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#dearly #i #i love #love #parents