#accord

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#asserting #become #carry #closer #consequence

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#amount #attributed #best #cases #control

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#accorded #advance #been #century #contribution

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. ↗

— Walter Martin

#christ #christian #jesus #jesus christ #know

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. ↗

— Walter Martin

#does #entertain #exercise #faith #god

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#effectiveness #geometric #increases #interruptions #progression

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency. ↗

— Gary Miller

#agency #asian #barrels #day #demand

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#use #varied #vocabulary #wide #wife

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#done #entangled #how #i #other