#quite

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#because #cook #could #early #early age

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#between #billions #border #border security #congress

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man. ↗

— Beth Orton

#always #bad #because #been #believe

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ↗

— George Orwell

#beings #human #human beings #quite #time

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#been #create #explore #i #kind

I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest. ↗

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

#again #behind #camera #eventually #honest

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #different #ourselves #quite #seem

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery. ↗

— James Payn

#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#after #am #athletics #believe #exhilaration