#often

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#favorite #going #i #i do #just

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother. ↗

— Francis Maude

#good #good mother #home #like #married

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain. ↗

— Francis Maude

#britain #contemporary #home #just #like

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#about #accept #anything #funny #funny thing

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#human #human love #love #love is #often

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #easier #freedom #greater #inner

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened. ↗

— James McAvoy

#area #beats #doctor #down #get

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. ↗

— John McCarthy

#been #closely #desire #history #human

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. ↗

— John McCarthy

#experiences #institution #often #survival