#pressing

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#continue #fund #future #how #into

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. ↗

— Rebecca West

#humanity #itself #more #never #than

She saw it in her mind's eye like a movie playing, the haunting memories from her childhood she couldn't seem to shake blending together into one raw, aching image. Her mother lying in a darkened room for days, her face swollen with tears. The inevitable ashtray overrun with ashes, the acrid scent of pot smoke in the air. The bed or couch or futon may have been different from year to year as Evie moved them around from apartment to commune to funky cottage, but her mother was always the same. Falling hard for some man, immersing herself in romantic fantasies that were crushed when the guy left. And the guy always left. Her mother's inability to get a grasp on reality had too often left Mischa to care for her younger sister, to care for her mother, from too young an age. She remembered shaking Evie awake, trying to get her to eat. To get up and take a shower, take her and Raine to school. No kid should have to do that. No kid should have to witness the way Evie had allowed herself to be ravaged by love. No woman should allow that to happen. ↗

— Eve Berlin

#childhood-memory #depressing #sad #age

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#experiences #expressing #feelings #first #foremost

Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself. ↗

— Macklemore

#completely #endless #expressing #extension #going

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

#expressing #fidelity #himself #his #journalistic

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. ↗

— Ted Morgan

#his #like #others #singularity #stammer

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#actually #always #anger #angry #around

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#any #artist #because #communicate #express

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#best way #cycle #depressing #doing #end