#divorced

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. ↗

— William Shatner

#back #broke #circuit #divorced #early

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#competing #curiosities #divorced #facts #isolated

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality? ↗

— Jeff Gannon

#going #how #mr #people #president

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#beautiful #child #divorced #gift #give

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. ↗

— Beth Henley

#divorced #i #just #loved #my own

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced. ↗

— Betty Hill

#divorced #family #i #kids #later

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cosmos #divorced #each #fractured #fragmented

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#ethics #leadership #management #mere #politics

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#denied #despair #divorced #family #fathers

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#been #divorced #i #married #me