#ak

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. ↗

— William Adams

#captain #carried #company #done #emperor

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. ↗

— Felix Adler

#animating #comforting #past #speaks #stirring

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#also #calculated #mathematically #quality #stupid

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. ↗

— Josef Albers

#art #color #fact #makes #medium

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ↗

— Alcaeus

#canals #city #finely #houses #make

Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it. ↗

— Charles R. Anderson

#identified #know #likely #most #observe

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#because #chess #choice #competition #difficulties

And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#about #automobile #automobile industry #change #electric

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Allen

#him #make #man #reveal

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. ↗

— Marty Allen

#bridal #down #him #his #horse