#gravity

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#excitement #fabric #governed #gravity #i

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#center #central #certainly #counterinsurgency #everybody

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered. ↗

— Steven Jesse Bernstein

#gravity #permanently #relationship

I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#awesome #awesome responsibility #branches #confirmed #constitution

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#centre #certain #certain time #distance #finds

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#become #careers #everything #gravity #i

He drew me like gravity. ↗

— M. Leighton

#gravity #love

But you neither friend nor foe, though I can't seem to let you go, the one thing that I still know is that your keeping me DOWN! ↗

— Sara Bareilles

#love #love

You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible. ↗

— Elizabeth Knox

#gravity #love #love