#ions

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#amongst #conclusions #convince #digging #doing

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#best #best intentions #club #crowd #end

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#absence #candles #diminishes #extinguishes #fans

A man is only as faithful as his options. ↗

— Chris Rock

#his #man #only #options

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#ask #before #both #feel #get

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. ↗

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#costs #decisions #economic #figure #food

If North Korea is allowed to maintain its nuclear weapons programs, other nations may well follow suit and some may buy such weapons from the North Koreans. ↗

— Robert F. Ellsworth

#buy #follow #korea #koreans #maintain

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses. ↗

— Rick Ross

#also #campuses #efforts #general #helpful

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. ↗

— Rick Ross

#again #decisions #difficulties #during #independent

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of Engineers decisions aren't changed. ↗

— Mike Rounds

#continues #corps #decisions #drought #engineers