#oft

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. ↗

— John Woolman

#afflicted #been #christ #clearness #deeply

The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#introduction #led #often #pluralism #political

Young people are so often dissed by the media. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#often #people #young #young people

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. ↗

— Bono

#elvis #enemy #god #happens #left

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#his #more #name #often #services

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#been #farmers #fighting #food #front

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. ↗

— James Bovard

#being #burden #change #con #important

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people. ↗

— Bill Bowerman

#bad weather #just #people #soft #such

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#humor #i #misery #often #out