#ay

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. ↗

— P. D. James

#dries #first #gush #human #human kindness

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ↗

— P. D. James

#days #english #frequently #life #memory

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound. ↗

— Richard D. James

#i #just #keyboard #like #rhythm

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#businessman #dad #entrepreneurial #got #his

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. ↗

— William James

#prayer #sovereign #worry

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

#advantage #better #character #concrete #entirely

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

#community #dies #impulse #individual #sympathy

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ↗

— William James

#enemy #greatest #may #our #rest

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. ↗

— William James

#cheap #pay #price #quality #sought

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#man #may #much #sense #sensibility