#fairly

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

#almost #called #civil #civil servant #dealing

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#beautifully #chicago #coming #doing #fairly

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#certain #clear #dream #fairly #famous

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#back #concerns #directly #eat #fairly

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. ↗

— David Bowie

#christ #different #different way #each #explore

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are. ↗

— Angela Cartwright

#big #business #discover #especially #fairly

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#cynicism #derive #dismal #fairly #hard

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

#agent #alter #aspects #cases #evidence

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#clear #clear conscience #conscience #even #fairly