#ease

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#career #ever #going #how #i

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#another #business #chilling #creation #crisis

I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#broader #christians #disease #environment #even

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#cease #culture #metaphysical #must #ultimate

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

#pleasures #tax

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#else #feasts #must #rare #solemn

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#any #black #concealed #every #find

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

#civilized #disease #gambling #superficially

Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable. Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?" "Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I"m afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!" "Sure it is. You just don't see the humor." "Jerk." Clary sighed, leaning up against the wall. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #joke #phone #simon-lewis #tease

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#dignity #held #importance #increase #inverse