#tended

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#family #thanksgiving #family

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#because #extended #extended family #fabric #family

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#ethical #everywhere #great #increasingly #industrial

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#go #gone #i #i may not #i think

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#because #coerce #coercive #confessions #consistency

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. ↗

— Franz Boas

#intended #kind #may #mind #object

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#any #cannot #describe #disregard #human

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family. ↗

— Julius Erving

#burden #celebrity #extended #extended family #family

A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended. ↗

— Evan Esar

#goes #husband #like #out #unattended

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#books #graphic #graphic novels #intended #novels