#hi

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. ↗

— Amy Grant

#always #getting #great #i #like

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#challenge #field #high #notoriously #ongoing

I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences... Lady Zhejiang here we must part, For the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, Where do you go? ↗

— Tom Carter

#china #chinese #collecting-poetic-lines #hangzhou #ji-ju

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#bluntly #ends #enough #exist #force

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't! ↗

— Hugh Grant

#awful #book #cling #could #creative

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. ↗

— Luis Cernuda

#beautiful #everything #moment #passes #then

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#courtship #displays #males #signals #through

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#always #anywhere #been #everyone #go

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and re-experience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. ↗

— Buckminster Fuller

#discerning #discovery #empiricism #experience #experiment

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#becomes #citizens #common #country #dead