#go

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bad #easier #give #good #good habits

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #become #been #book #brothers

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#anything #could #i #life #long

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#along #fame #felt #freedom #get

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#book #did #dropped #end #going

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. ↗

— Peter Max

#going #i #itself #just #know

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#backward #dinner #goodness #sake #serve

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#asking #availability #begin #capability #does

It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since. ↗

— Theresa May

#come #conference #conservative #conservative party #continued

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay. ↗

— Theresa May

#ago #cameron #david #feeling #growing