#chi

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#i #longer #machinery #shall #tinker

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. ↗

— Carlos Salinas

#danger #ends #force #frames #longer

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#excitement #go #grass #grow #investing

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. ↗

— Harry von Zell

#been #charged #cost #designer #mission

We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed. ↗

— Mawhinney and Sagan

#emotions #learning #stress #teaching #understanding

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear. ↗

— Mary Church Terrell

#children #colored #crosses #heaviest #prejudice

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#child #happened #helped #i #i believe

Childhood is a short season. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#season #short

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. ↗

— John Thorn

#backyard #ball #ball game #baseball #days

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized! ↗

— Joey Santiago

#arrives #beak #chicken #come #draw