#them

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. ↗

— Herodotus

#before #best #bidding #certainly #choose

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them. ↗

— Peter King

#after #anyone #approved #barack #barack obama

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#chemistry #early #high #high school #home

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#circumstances #instead #letting #meant #often

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time. ↗

— Janice Markowitz

#all things #differently #first #first time #had

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#find #fit #image #love #love is

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. ↗

— John Metcalf

#honest #keep #themselves #writers

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #case #cause #either #evil

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood. ↗

— Alice Miller

#destructive #people #produce #them #treating