#ten

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consistency #consistent #contrary #dead #life

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#bad guys #everyone #going #good #guys

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. ↗

— Horace

#deterred #disgrace #often #others

The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#another #because #believe #compensation #consider

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#attracting #chance #desperation #good #good chance

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#cannot #come #content #happy #highways

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#comes #contents #examining #mental #mind

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#caught #contrary #death #drama #harmony

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#best #better #chance #francis #happy

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#art #caused #direction #disappointment #drove