#readily

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#books #carry #fire #hand #hold

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#candor #christianity #conceded #demands #every

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#associations #channel #imagination #memories #more

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big! ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#closet #disappointed #friends #i #readily

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#affordable #available #countries #developed countries #energy

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. ↗

— George Santayana

#like #readily #relinquished #should #skepticism

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#brings #deadlines #desperation #i #i am

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#excited #feelings #may #mind #nature