#will

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#anticipating #carrying #hare #heavy #little

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#make #never #philosophers #probably #two

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#any #country #directive #exert #general

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#contrary #even #happiness #him #his

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt. ↗

— Joe Baca

#hurt #legal #legal system #majority #nothing

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#call #disaster #does #fall #hate

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#easy #instrument #itself #key #musical

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. ↗

— Richard Bach

#better #first #friends #know #meet

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. ↗

— Richard Bach

#be happy #happy #important #life #lost

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. ↗

— Richard Bach

#bodies #characters #fictional #heartbeats #more