#lever

If I had felt always as much as I do sometimes, life wouldn't be bearable. ↗

— Dr Vegar Myklebust

#humanity #love #love-hurts #love-story #thinkers

He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage." "Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!" "Her freedom!" "I think her much at liberty. ↗

— Helen Halstead

#experience

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert

No government likes the clever and the honourable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. ↗

— John Crowley

#clever #had #i #nightmare #producers

I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#any #billion #concerns #country #debt

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#biggest #clever #cleverest #idiots #makes

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#clever #never #option #our #policy

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. ↗

— Tony Randall

#clever #publicity #sell #stunt #tickets

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#dinner #down #i #ideas #sit