#partner

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#acting class #basket #bought #came #class

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#character #dam #either #europe #european

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#global #humanity #know #men #men and women

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#anything #assistance #every #except #fact

Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#astaire #extraordinarily #him #his #look

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#child #different #i #i am #now

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. ↗

— Maria Bello

#fairy #fairy tale #great #i #i always

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years. ↗

— Christo

#during #only #partnership #person #really

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#inclusion #judgment #national #national security #obama