#rely

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#deteriorate #entirely #feels #get #hope

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country. ↗

— George Grey

#been #brazil #country #curious #destruction

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter. ↗

— John Grierson

#corporate #cultivation #fact #in fact #lines

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them. ↗

— George Grosz

#back #because #being #bellow #enough

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ↗

— John Gunther

#depends #happiness #leisurely

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#because #been #dislike #had #may

My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way. ↗

— Guy Hamilton

#change #choose #director #every #film

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#bag #baseball #book #clearest #color