#asks

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#asks #because #conceal #does #either

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#building #category #destroyers #drags #human

I hated meatloaf. It was like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. So I told Mom because I was honest that way. I sat back, squared my shoulders, and met her eyes, all confident-like. "Mom, meatloaf's like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. It should be outlawed, frankly, and serving it for dinner is like child abuse and should carry with it some pretty stiff penalties. ↗

— Hayden Thorne

#funny #masks #meatloaf #funny

I love the ritual of drawing up lists, and there's something wonderfully satisfying about ticking tasks off. ↗

— Shaida Kazie Ali

#satisfaction #tasks #love

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ↗

— James Houston

#build #carve #cross #daily #granted

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. ↗

— Rona Barrett

#got #healthy #help #his #individual

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#equal #powers #pray #pray for #tasks

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. ↗

— Pierre Curie

#alfred #also #characteristic #criminals #destruction

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#hardest #know #least #menial #most

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. ↗

— David Deutsch

#be the first #between #collaboration #computation #distinctively