#often

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

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

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

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#exist #find #i #israel #last

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. ↗

— Robert Chambers

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares. ↗

— John Clare

#anything #been #companions #drinking #easy

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#any #delicious #disagreeable #element #manifests

I have often said that there is no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented by the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm. ↗

— John Coolidge

#began #being #cause #detrimental #disturbed