Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do, " she would write seven decades later.
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
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David Levithan
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?
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Shannon L. Alder
How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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Robert Browning
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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Charles Bukowski
More Quotes By Doris Kearns Goodwin
As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.’ When...
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty that they have had collusion with men whose interests were in conflict with the interests of the public, they shall, at least, be...
I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch, of that afternoon's contest. It never crossed my mind to wonder if, at...
