#oft

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#hard #her #memories #over #signs

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. ↗

— John Bunyan

#easy #high #hit #learned #mark

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#ask #give #government #more #much

I often reread books I have written. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#i #often #reread #written

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#am #because #comes #depressed #down

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

#barbarous #because #been #centuries #check

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#get #go #i #often #swimming

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. ↗

— Periander

#makes #misquoted #often #perfect #practice

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#details #imprisoned #life #material #mind

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#disastrous #dresser #i #label #main