#presents

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#bobby #brother #brothers #by the time #christmas

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contrast #even #everything #little #need

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#between #cling #emotional #equally #eternal

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it. ↗

— Ric Keller

#bad #border #congress #decided #firsthand

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#coming #disappointments #end #ever #life

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better. ↗

— Anita Desai

#better #caste #characters #exist #india

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#certitude #external #feels #given #hand

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#asks #because #career #dream #films

The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#corruption #families #future #had #incompetence

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#challenge #characters #complex #deeply #extent