#com

She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history. ... Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, "I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman." First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him. ↗

— Stephanie Bond

#mystery #romance #food

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong. ↗

— Tom Welling

#become #breath #calm #calm down #chaos

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#another #been #come #founding #head

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid. ↗

— David Wells

#being #changed #complaining #game #going

To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true. ↗

— David Wells

#dream #fan #game #growing #growing up

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#dissension #dock #gamble #homicide #international

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#becomes #between #catastrophe #education #human

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#community #crime #end #failure #in the end

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#armies #becomes #between #blind #command

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#before #compare #educator #know #must