#oft

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. ↗

— David Suzuki

#blamed #considerations #critical #economic #failure

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#because #declared #divide #divine #heaven

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#bus #get #i #ideas #just

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. ↗

— William Barclay

#away #compensation #find #given #less

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' ↗

— Joe Biden

#champ #dad #down #gets #how

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#doing #drive #ears #eyes #hands

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#fog #grotesque #kind #larger #like

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#difficulty #fascination #learning #materials #medium

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else. ↗

— Don Fraser

#everything #filled #gets #having #how

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#nature #noble #observes #often #only