#plate

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#avoidance #beginning #clear #contaminate #contemplate

In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them. ↗

— Cat Cora

#decide #dinner #excited #family #finish

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#also #any #central #contact #contemplated

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#fickle #food #plate #shifting #upon

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

#difference #following #guy #head #headline

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#did #english #enough #ever #food

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#court #fingerprints #guns #hand #i

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#europe #example #fought #freedom #ideas

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that. ↗

— John Howard

#contemplate #did #fact #fair #government

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit. ↗

— Shoeless Joe Jackson

#base #could #get #getting #hit