#gravity

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

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

Something always brings be back to you, it never takes too long ↗

— Sara Bareilles

#love #sara-bareilles #takes-too-long #love

Doesn’t he look just like a ring wraith?” she said thoughtfully. “Are you kidding?” replied Cathy, “I most certainly won't be carol singing at your door this Christmas if you've got one of those ugly things hanging on it!” “No, from Lord of the Rings,” said Sue impatiently. “I'm sorry,” snorted Cathy, “I don't watch pornographic material." “Have you never read a book?!” Sue snapped. “It's about a small man who travels through dangerous lands to drop a ring into a volcano, it's a classic.” “Does sound like a small man,” she replied, “can't even face his marriage problems full on. ↗

— Paul Baxter

#gravity #humour #politics #science-fiction #space

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#body #comedy #gravity #great #how

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#gravity #lick #overwhelming #paperwork #sometimes

Abominations. He did not say the last word aloud, but she felt something like pain echo through him, pity. “You sound like you know a lot about this kind of thing?” “You could say I have first hand experience.” Valdagerion was looking up at the tanks a dark twisted pain in his eyes. The expression made her heart pound with alarm. The alien was wounded, the kind of deep physiological wounds that could make a person very dangerous. ↗

— D.M. Alexandra

#alien-romance #caught-in-his-gravity #elves #experement #pain

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. ↗

— Edward Weston

#composition #consulting #going #gravity #laws

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. ↗

— William Allingham

#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#arguing #been #globalization #gravity #laws