#able

I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#chances #comfortable #fail #going #i

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?' ↗

— Gary Ross

#after #creates #else #first #games

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#bird #enable #facts #fly #man

We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#control #country #federal #federal government #gallon

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. ↗

— James Thurber

#demonstrable #dog #fun #got #laughable

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#appear #however #insurmountable #may #mysterious

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#considerable #destruction #economic #fought #gain

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#award #cannot #difficult #i #ideals

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#any #chaos #existence #generality #indeed

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#general #i #i do #most #movements