#rent

There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It’s been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks—the expiration date on her childhood. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#parenting #dating

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#fertile #indifferent #nearly #possessions #possessors

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#always #cabinet #change #different #driver

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#chance #different #else #i #me

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. ↗

— Christian Bale

#between #central #character #comes #differentiate

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #actually #audience #convince #creating

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#death #died #humanity #indifferent #inflict

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. ↗

— John Abizaid

#america #authority #blame #currently #important

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#busy #choice #first #i #kitchen

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#beings #believe #different #i #i believe