#ld

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)! ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#growing-old #women #age

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#atmosphere #both #cold #conditions #containing

Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#also #course #economy #financial #financial markets

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#faith #investigator #robust #should #yet

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#because #being #between #getting #getting married

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#moderate #muslims #our #should #strategy

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#could #hope #humanity #i #kind

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#car #children #deliver #ever after #forever

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world? ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#days #feel #feel good #good #how

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#antagonism #concerned #couples #directly #family