#hem

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#change #dresden-files #fire #change

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them. ↗

— David Frost

#build #castles #conservative #labor #live

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#chemistry #contribution #earth #energy #fear

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them. ↗

— Allen Funt

#anything #most #people #receptive #smiling

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#believe #charms #contemplating #faults #flatter

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#advertise #affiliations #anxiety #automobiles #college

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. ↗

— Kenny G

#everybody #fine #i #i think #jazz

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#colonies #commons #hold #house #lords

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#discovered #easy #once #point #them

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#difference #how #indeed #life #man