#be

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency. ↗

— Eric Massa

#believe #candidacy #cheney #commander #david

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ↗

— Robert Trout

#although #arrived #before #british #chinese

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#meditation #nature #practice #spirit #thought

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#conducting #could #first #go #got

I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#brooks #cast #day #every #hearing

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#best #child #comes #feeling #head

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#approximately #been #carry #constants #estimated

And I’ll wager you thought him the handsomest thing that ever you saw in your life.” “I did. And if you stuck him, and stuffed him, and hung him on the wall, I’d be very glad to admire him. But in life he’s an arrogant pig, and I didn’t care for him at all. ‘Mind who you look at, wench.’ Foo! ↗

— Diane Stanley

#beauty #sarcastic-humor #beauty

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#began #biggest #camera #complex #feel

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#being #decisive #determined #developments #idea