#ten

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. ↗

— John Clayton

#christ #create #emphasis #ethnic #legal

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#child #common #constantly #grow #i

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence. ↗

— William De Morgan

#evidence #existence #i #necessarily #never

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#clarity #comes #doing #good #honesty

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent. ↗

— Pat Morita

#idea #japanese #non-existent #only #rarity

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#along #any #great #hardly #i

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#good #learn #listen #only #rule

In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#education #enlightenment #age

They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the acquaintance. Whether she thought of him so much while she drank her warm wine and water and prepared herself for bed as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a light slumber, or a morning doze at most, for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman’s love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentlemen before the gentleman is first known to have dreamed of her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love #northanger-abbey #romance #dreams