#exceedingly

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. ↗

— Orville Wright

#air #balanced #being #center #control

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#behind #bluntly #clock #could #drinking

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#after #another #anything #book #came

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#billy #both #business #career #decisions

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#duty #exceedingly #find #hard #knows

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chaotic #disturbing #emerge #especially #ever

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#congregation #exceedingly #joining #prayer #solemn

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#exceedingly #gain #how #knowledge #limited

I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth. ↗

— Kate Smith

#am #birth #exceedingly #given #i

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. ↗

— Herodotus

#exceedingly #fortunate #many #men #middling