#ira

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. ↗

— Andre Gide

#authors #aware #become #differences #disagreement

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#best friend #friend #husband #inspiration #intellectual

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#absurd #admirable #agreed #barack #barack obama

Women can be emancipated only when she can take part on a large social scale in production and is engaged in domestic workk only to an insignificant degree. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#inspirational #women-s-rights #equality

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist. ↗

— Danny Glover

#agreements #america #celebrate #energy #find

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deeds #desire #great #love #spirit

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#adjustment #after #case #close #couple

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts. ↗

— Charlie Gonzalez

#all americans #analysis #based #duty #elected

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#cost #iraq #progress #without

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. ↗

— Amy Tan

#comes #desperation #inspiration #kindness #knows