#oft

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one. ↗

— William Gurnall

#child #comforts #degree #grace #great

Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#bin #compare #conventional #fight #function

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. ↗

— Jacob Hacker

#accounts #comfortable #even #feel #homes

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#awhile #event #happen #human #makes

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#chronic #history #ill #mentally #often

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#because #characters #hardest #knowledge #live

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#business #companies #defend #doors #down

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#beyond #competition #engaging #fair #go

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #companies #costs #face #few

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#beauty #beholder #dared #empowers #eye