#urns

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#age #boy #eight #father #him

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ↗

— Robert Bly

#absent #children #day #during #father

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ↗

— George Eliot

#exclusion #get #great #great deal #into

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#capable #careers #comes #courage #did

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. ↗

— Bono

#age #between #closed #digital #doing

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#around #baseball #end #good #gripping

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.' ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#because #begged #child #condition #constituency

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. ↗

— Euripides

#angry #being #best #course #events

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#book #centers #comes #cops #eavesdrop

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#head #i #idea #into #life