#wit

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#begins #call #chief #chief justice #confirm

The world cannot be governed without juggling. ↗

— John Selden

#governed #juggling #without #world

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. ↗

— John Selden

#best #giving #god #god almighty #good

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #darker #even #father #humor

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#being #child #creature #escape #i

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#child #confronted #critical #direction #father

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#knowing #mean #necessarily #things #without

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #dependence #enjoy #future #present

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗