#rely

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#agree #beyond #browning #entirely #express

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#anyone #bore #certainly #claims #clear

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#comprised #entirely #jail #rapidly #shopping

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#clocks #fathers #indians #least #merely

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. ↗

— Frank Crane

#because #corner #decide #driven #into

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#dwell #epitome #get #golf #golf course

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#dear #deflation #held #indeed #inflation

No man surely has so short a memory as the American. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#man #memory #short #surely

My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#because #been #dear #deep #deep down

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness