#them

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. ↗

— Frank Field

#longer #politicians #poor #race #separate

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment. ↗

— Marshall Field

#control #controlled #exercise #judgment #man

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#how #just #looking #love #much

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#happened #hurry #men #most #nothing

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#both #different #grandmothers #had #household

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. ↗

— John Clayton

#christ #jesus #jesus christ #much #season

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#found #give #glad #hope #i

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#burden #children #feel #grim #i

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#compassion #contradictions #duty #fall #i