Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers
Recitation: by Male by Female
My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.
Jhumpa Lahiri
MyselfSchoolParentsMeDoorWorld
In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.
John Lanchester
WorkMoneyPizzaPeopleWorldFind
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
Robert Reich
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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
Anna Quindlen
MotherWomanManBabyYouFall
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
MenWomanIntelligenceIntelligent
Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making government more accountable by investigating waste, mismanagement, and improprieties.
Ron DeSantis
GovernmentMeHousePlayMoreRole
Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.
Roland Martin
FamilyDayEnd Of The DayEndYou
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.
Masashi Kishimoto
CoolActionHelpMoreRealisticMay
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.
Missy Elliott
I AmEyeScaredOnceVeryAm
I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
Moby
PeopleNiceImageFloatingSomewhere
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
FocusTrainingMindCalmPlace
I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.
Chris Froome
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