#sometimes

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. ↗

— Paracelsus

#cases #composed #doubtful #ear #feeling

Knowing that she loved me, hoping that she loved me, opened some kind of door in my heart. And all the love I'd forgotten or pushed away came flooding back in. ↗

— Sherri Lee Emmons

#forgotten #hope #love #the-sometimes-daughter #love

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs. ↗

— Jim Talent

#because #clear #continue #done #federal

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#elsewhere #exists #i #i think #intelligent

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#courage #even #live #sometimes

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#although #few #gold #know #knowing

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#door #each #i #i wonder #just

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year. ↗

— George Takei

#four #i #least #once #regularly

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#become #believe #conduct #difficult #habitual

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#archaeological #artistic #down #epic #extraordinary