#happily

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. ↗

— Edmund White

#confirm #desperately #excuse #i #identity

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. ↗

— Paul Getty

#been #endure #envy #feel #given

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

#actor #as far as #dreams #far #go

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#afternoon #again #bit #day #done

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#american #dead #i #only #over

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#happily #hard #just #married #movies

I had a girlfriend when I was about 13 but we didn't stay together for very long and I've not really been out with many people since. I've still never had a serious girlfriend but I would happily go out with someone if the right girl came along. ↗

— Niall Horan

#along #been #came #girl #girlfriend

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#basis #british #declaration #english #formulate

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager