#pre

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#orientation #presupposes

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#chapters #cut #last #pregnancy #two

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#fun #pretty #ride #tell #truth

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#am #career #certainly #chance #follow

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate. ↗

— Andrew von Eschenbach

#decade #dense #difficult #grown #information

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned. ↗

— Julius Erving

#depressed #get #go #good #good moments

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗

— Theodore White

#become #beginning #corps #correspondents #days

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#apprehension #beauty #bosco #cale #consider

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ↗

— Eva Figes

#against #any #because #considered #definition

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start. ↗

— Bob Filner

#afford #areas #begin #children #gets