#eight

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #comfortable #fiction #four #genre

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#did #eight #hurt #i #kept

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#any #anyone #cannot #coming #coming home

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#height #how #low #measure #mountain

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#doing #i #lot #most #never

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#balance #decisively #favour #great #great responsibility

It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#been #eight #i #living #me

None knows the weight of another's burden. ↗

— George Herbert

#burden #knows #none #weight

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life. ↗

— Jack Herer

#alcohol #eight #life #substitute #tobacco

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. ↗