#shared

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#i #i think #issues #sense #shared

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#burden #conviction #education #educational #else

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#common #growing #kitchen #life #married

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#barack #barack obama #between #carter #differences

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #burden #carries #everyone #grief

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. ↗

— Jack London

#charity #dog #hungry #just #shared

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#between #bridge #difference #emotional #forms

Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together. ↗

— David Lynch

#bring #brings #does #each #everyone