#somewhat

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#chances #different #easily #european #even

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic. ↗

— Chris Ware

#friends #i #i do #imagine #mom

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#action #asks #balance #himself #insane

My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations. ↗

— Karen Allen

#being #between #born #considerations #constantly

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#always #another #being #consists #dead

If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#american #impressive #less #quantitatively #satisfying

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#afford #any #commendation #contempt #due

People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect. ↗

— Brad Delson

#bigger #daddy #deal #get #go

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#close #countries #heightened #i #i think

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. ↗

— Robert Bolt

#aside #birth #day #does #draw