#rely

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. ↗

— Louise Brown

#child #children #escape #found #had

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#backwards #efficient #going #means #merely

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#any #art #consequences #consists #economics

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#attention #back #come #had #happen

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#business #dinner #dinner parties #like #merely

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings. ↗

— Kenny Hickey

#come #handle #i #i can #man

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. ↗

— David Viscott

#between #faith #life #man #merely

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#dirty work #i #know #literal #men

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#entirely #hands #his #husband #i