#con

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#condemns #even #his #information #own

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. ↗

— Keith Haring

#extent #fight #gravity #i #i think

The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#body #constitution #court #every #general

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? ↗

— Henry Harland

#do you know #grace #know #life #minor

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ↗

— Ken Harrelson

#baseball #cares #everything #fence #golf

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#contains #continent #now #shares #superpower

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#act #authorization #barriers #breaking #congress

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

#curiosity #discover #ends #even #idiot

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later. ↗

— Ed Harris

#about #constituents #every #explain #going