#thoughtful

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#difficult #discern #liberty #religious #religious liberty

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#could #debate #into #ought #something

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#appropriate #celebrate #choose #citizen #decent

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethics #i #i think #reflective #think

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#love

She got icing all over her face. I think that's why I like her. For the good stuff, she's willing to get icing all over her face. Who wouldn't want a girl like that? ↗

— Laura Ruby

#funny #love #thoughtful #true #funny

subordination is insubordinate to nature ↗

— A.G Phillips

#nature

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

SHE OF NOBODY ELSE'S BIDDING: That is who I am now--someone who has not done what anyone else said since July 2008, though not because I am either disobedient or a slacker. ↗

— Margaret Roach

#thoughtful #inspirational

She’s calm and happy now that Scotty loves her. I can’t tell if she’s actually real, or if she’s stopped caring if she’s real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real? ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#love