#eva

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #degree #language #particular #precision

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#finished #had #happy #heats #i

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#beautiful #chicago #cities #city #differently

Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#just #me #nominated #unbelievable #win

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ↗

— Plutarch

#little #many #more #overcome #perseverance

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#because #documents #elevated #founding #great

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#conceded #geneva #government #moral #pressure

Medieval justice was a quaint thing. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#medieval #quaint #thing

It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#hard #just #long #managed #match

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. ↗

— Karl Popper

#elevated #histories #history #human #human life