#stead

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years. ↗

— Jordan Knight

#became #course #i #over #problem

Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.' ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#bigger #could #even #gets #herself

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#been #grown #had #instead #logical

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#ear #i #instead #kiss #loving

Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track. ↗

— Betty Shabazz

#doctors #go #harvard #helped #husband

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#class #instead #likely #longer #months

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and what it has to say on questions unimaginable to our eighteenth-century Framers. ↗

— Diane Wood

#constitution #debate #dynamism #end #evolution

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#business #decisions #emotional #instead #interesting

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#desire #fails #fragments #instead #longer

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#agree #art #balance #counter #doing