#who

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#course #first #might #nothing #occupy

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#am #asked #being #chicago #disorienting

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#itself #lawrence #occasion #population #presents

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#except #ideal #ideals #matter #nothing

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. ↗

— William Law

#happy #happy life #holy #learned #life

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#been #billion #common #except #fact

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. ↗

— Christopher Love

#call #daily #families #god #may

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#impossible #intimacy #know #life #married

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#drive #i #people #simply #success