#ken

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#bits #chicken #clock #discrete #dishwasher

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again. ↗

— Amy Lee

#broken #fallen #get #going #hint

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful. ↗

— Miranda Leek

#beautiful #broken #flow #force #good

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then. ↗

— John Linder

#colonies #could #during #fathers #fifty

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#been #english #haven #i #months

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. ↗

— Laura Linney

#i #likes #over #picture #place

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#coach #decent #getting #good #had

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#any #beat #fear #hearts #i

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#broken #friendships #must #path #social