#be

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#deep #doing #fall #fallen #gravity

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political. ↗

— Nelly

#cool #getting #i #labels #many

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#above #being #dignity #due #enough

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#american literature #book #called #comes #finn

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #continue #disrespectful #fail #i

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#craft #ever #master #where

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#anything #applied #become #concepts #critics

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#aspects #because #become #popular #reasons

Man is remembered by his deeds. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#his #man #remembered