#oft

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#attempt #deceptive #devote #literature #most

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there. ↗

— Vance Havner

#find #god #hardest #him #ironies

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa. ↗

— John Hawkes

#ask #audience #chance #even #exactly

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#ever #made #none #our #run

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#capability #categories #customers #effort #focus

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#hardest #hearts #i #simple #softening

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#come #crystallize #family #own #soften

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#author #cite #does #from time to time #great

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dr #however #johnson #lazy #learned