To5 Trigger Quotes & Sayings

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41] — Dani Shapiro

In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
One: I am alive.
Two: there is no two. — Nick Lake

If God wanted us to play soccer, he would've given only 1 in 11 people arms. — Mike Ditka

the more people killed in a war, the less likely it was to occur, and the longer before you could witness it, just as violent storms occur less frequently than cloudbursts. Richardson — Carl Sagan

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required. — Andrew Young

My father didn't push me. — William Clay Ford Jr.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion. — Aml Ameen

The United States had a long bipartisan tradition of negotiating with even its worst enemies, from John Kennedy
'Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate
to Richard Nixon's opening with China, to Ronald Reagan's famous 'walk in the woods' with MIkhail Gorbachev. Obama's position was firmly in line with longstanding diplomatic practice. George W. Bush's post-9/11 policy
'You are either for us or against us'
was the exception, and a bad one. It removed subtlety from international affairs. — Mark Bowden

Despite his recent pang of desire for human company of any kind, the very first word addressed to him in reality instantly elicited his usual, unpleasant and irritable feeling of disgust towards any stranger who came into contact with him, or showed the slightest wish to do so. 'I — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mother prescribing her books like medicines. A good dose of Whitman would set me straight, like castor oil. But at least she was thinking of me. I existed once more. — Janet Fitch

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody. — Martial

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way. — Guy Finley

The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength — Kirsten Beyer

Art, like Nature, has her monsters — Oscar Wilde