#oft

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#get #half #i #i write #into

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#being myself #easily #everything #falling #fully

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#desperate #mankind #most #often

I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#different #hear #i #people #side

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bad #bad people #behavior #blamed #culture

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#ingratitude #often #reality #self-love #suffer

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#fame #feel #feel good #good #i

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#internationalist #internationally #least #need #nowadays