#ren

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#children #degree #frankly #goddamn #got

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. ↗

— Connie Stevens

#children #decision #fulfilled #had #happily

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#equal #importance #least #only #parents

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#know #learn #lies #life #never

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ashamed #been #being #grandparents #having

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal. ↗

— John Elway

#basics #different #different animal #getting #i

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#being #does #doing #donner #enjoy

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#between #different #easily #expertise #fields

I love to work in all sorts of different situations. ↗

— Laura Linney

#i #i love #love #situations #sorts