#least

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#capacity #consistency #cycles #homogeneity #i

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. ↗

— George Chapman

#always #least #like #most #seldom

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bad #being #despite #fact #ginsberg

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs. ↗

— Lee Child

#authors #better #care #considerably #female

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#confident #creatures #either #example #fairly

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#devil #favourable #hell #hitler #house

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence. ↗

— John Clayton

#any #ask #believe #consistent #existence

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#could #found #i #least #peers

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good. ↗

— Jay Carney

#agenda #american #american economy #ceiling #debate

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#been #contented #convinced #demanded #i