#les

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#bad #bad example #compensate #could #effects

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging. ↗

— Denis Healey

#digging #first #first law #follow #good

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#examination #great #imagined #immense #knowledge

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #chance #dignitaries #find #formerly

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#angeles #being #down #go #going

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#being #breath #charles #hair #i

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#been #believe #catholic #christian #denomination

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#buying #college #college student #dental #friends