#rin

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#century #defects #english #great #index

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#always #any #catch #during #home

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#because #bought #caring #got #i

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#events #general #gives #great #help

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#been #boring #eccentric #haven #i

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#days #exhausted #feel #glorified #i

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#defect #glaring #hides #lends #lustre

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#fact #in fact #itself #lyric #medium

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#craved #during #four #hand #holding