#chin

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors. ↗

— Al Oerter

#best way #capacity #doors #exercise #i

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#atomic bomb #begin #bomb #end #engineers

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#area #china #common #dealing #free

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football. ↗

— Trey Parker

#election #football #i #like #months

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#coaching #everything #failure #fertilizer #good

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#form #goal #isolation #means #never

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#background #came #chinese #did #i

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#alive #animal #anyone #argue #caring

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#different #environment #medium #own #particular

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#bryan #county #family #fifteen #found