#somewhat

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#come #community #conventional #eyes #indefinite

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#creating #god #his #i #man

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#being #car #comfortable #control #driver

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s. ↗

— Corey Hart

#during #i #period #reclusive #somewhat

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#bring #call #conditions #equilibrium #establish

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #day #down #dusk #get

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#deal #family #family history #great #great deal

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#away #cast #christ #could #death

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#disney #found #heart #i #kid

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#i #jest #jokes #kind #make