#happily

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#before #entirely #happily #live #must

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#after #blank #book #bucks #ever

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true. ↗

— Marc Webb

#because #eventually #ever #ever after #great

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#building #developed #diet #different #eventually

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