#sure

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#derive #doing #favors #feeling #gives

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#down #element #later #laying #malice

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#almost #before #cake #editing #film

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. ↗

— Albert Hofmann

#began #closed #colors #day #enjoy

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer. ↗

— William Holden

#aging #bank #bank account #become #grow

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. ↗

— Horace

#give #last #long #nor #pleasure

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#anticipation #greatest #just #pleasures #remember

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#brink #class #collapse #company #disaster

Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#bobby #boy #brett #eldest #heaped