#sure

Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#griffinlordsexy #notorious-pleasures #communication

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#burden #chiefly #conventional #credited #falls

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided. ↗

— Ali Larter

#broken #got #heart #i #many

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#i #individual #nothing #outing #people

Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions! ↗

— David Pratt

#actions #being #being honest #called #holding

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ. ↗

— Frances Wright

#differ #err #experiment #fact #ground

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

#ever #guides #sciences #surest #virtue

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me. ↗

— Samantha Mumba

#friends #get #group #hide #i

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that. ↗

— Larry Page

#better job #company #contributing #doing #everybody