#seem

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#get #hard #harder #i #just

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#adjustment #combination #does #door #each

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. ↗

— James Wolcott

#going #had #hair #hudson #insincere

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#anyone #best #chooses #does #experience

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#every #forced #go #i #into

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#brainstorm #doing #excited #feel #friends

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#another #belief #believe #countries #dangerous

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#back #deconstruct #discuss #everything #fights