#vale

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ambivalent #babies #being #being human #best

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#ambivalence #corporate #corporate world #family #history

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#evolution #feeling #few #few men #inborn

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#arise #become #being #being overwhelmed #enough

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

#big #big mac #equivalent #fries #i

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? ↗

— Stephen King

#boots #could #died #dying #equivalent

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#his #master #mind #soul #those

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon. ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#icon #person #valentino #want

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#condemning #drive #i #interested #judgment

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#doomed #equivalent #failure #human #human actions