#imp

When someone hands you a broom, get a few buckets of paint. That is how a janitor becomes an impressionist. If the 19th century French style could improve upon nature, it can make your floor look clean. ↗

— Bauvard

#brooms #cleaning #custodians #funny #humor

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#already #become #competencies #daily #daily life

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#respect #sincere #respect

I simply hate the people who have no good words for anyone, who is impolite & who don't respect anyone. ↗

— Prathima Bhandary

#hate #impolite #respect

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#philosophy #science #telephone #science

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #best #common #common sense #fallacy

Time travel..will never be impossible forever. ↗

— Toba Beta

#impossibility #new-science #time-travel #science

Oareşce emoţii sunt de aşteptat de la un anticar când e luat pe sus, direct din pat, şi dus la Comandatură. Bine măcar că şoferul nici nu mă bagă în seamă, conduce maşina pe străzile încă pustii cu aroganţa învingătorului. Fericiţi cei ce nu-şi cunosc viitorul! Mă întreb ce-ar spune dacă i-aş şopti la ureche că, nu peste foarte mult timp, va fi mort, prizonier sau măcar muritor de foame. ↗

— Stefana Cristina Czeller

#nemira #science-fiction #time-travel #timp #science

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#self-improvement #true

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ↗

— Leon J. Suenes

#dreams