#domestic

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#europe #history #long #mostly #terrorism

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#become #change #claus #domesticated #god

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. ↗

— Robin Cook

#action #agreement #britain #collective #commit

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals? ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#consumers #create #domestic #everything #import

Music and symbols, they're older than human race. Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind. ↗

— Toba Beta

#domestication #education #teaching #education

My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another." "It's a very real power, Harriet." "Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#devotion #dignity #disagreements #domestic-life #equality

She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#domestic-abuse #domestic-violence #family #fathers #love

Even though you weren't born to us, you grew in our hearts. We will be forever connected because love is what makes a family. ↗

— Deanna Kahler

#domestic-adoption #family

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#certainly #country #domestic #eliminate #every

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#case #cheaper #cleaner #domestic #fuel