#rely

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. ↗

— Luke Ford

#anger #feared #frequently #friendships #hatred

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#bore #bores #contradict #great #himself

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#cause #christians #endure #even #merely

People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#cats #children #groups #hear #miss

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#art world #elect #elite #galleries #i

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #elements #feelings #instead #merely

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#chaos #form #imagine #merely #order

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. ↗

— David Knopfler

#arrangement #blood #company #i #large

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#life #merely #necessary

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more. ↗

— Oskar Kokoschka

#around #dimension #expression #fundamental #groping