#ect

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#improve #often #perfect

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#destroy #law #regulations #respect #ten

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#body #connection #contagion #could #detained

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#distraction #expect #fashion #get #going

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#being #big #big mouth #bumps #child

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #divine #happiness #infinite #infinitely

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#because #consider #cycle #feel #going

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. ↗

— Keith Urban

#collected #collecting #costly #get #had

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it. ↗

— Keith Urban

#country #exposed #father #how #i

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even