#devote

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. ↗

— William H. Seward

#constitution #devotes #domain #higher #law

Dex,” she said. “Are you all right?” “I’ll be fine, Sis,” I said, feeling somewhat light-headed, “if you’ll just turn off that horrible music. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#music

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#almost #daily #devote #effect #exertion

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. ↗

— Mario Batali

#books #cakes #constantly #could #devoted

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attack #defending #deliberate #devote #enough

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ↗

— Henry Ford

#absolutely #business #devoted #embarrassingly #large

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#community #creating #devote #get #gives

You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#before #big #devoted #drawing #episode

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world. ↗

— Christian Bale

#backpack #been #bit #breath #change

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#devoted #fifty #i #life #professional