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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.


Emma Thompson


#dealing #death #difficult #difficult things #disease

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#assemblies #assembly #debates #democratic #dragged

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.


Ted Turner


#care #get #how #i #intended

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.


Greg Walden


#administration #also #believe #cost #drive

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#anything #blindly #consequences #creating #failing

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.


Margaret J. Wheatley


#consequences #ecology #every #every time #example

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.


Oprah Winfrey


#beyond #far #god #goes #imagine

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.


Oprah Winfrey


#being #complete #complete person #evolve #intended

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.


James Wolcott


#arrived #buster #carrey #clowns #comedy

I never intended to only do dark, serious things.


Joseph Gordon-Levitt


#i #intended #never #only #serious