#tie

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. ↗

— George Eliot

#desire #future #i #past #ties

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#even #hath #him #himself #power

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#appealing #becomes #dating #down #fife

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #faced #great

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ↗

— Abba Eban

#duties #embodiment #jews #living #might

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#audience #because #captured #close #come

It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#been #big #chip #does #ever

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #busy #clothing #confinement #does