#less

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#air #back #comes #effect #face

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. ↗

— Paul Harris

#average #being #critical #disposition #else

I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me. ↗

— Ira Hayes

#back #better #buddies #coming #crack

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#business #disposed #education #energy #first

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless. ↗

— Alexander Henry

#ancient #before #confront #ever #fast

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. ↗

— David Hockney

#bus #design #does #good #move

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#alone #baby #bum #criminal #cute

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#leaving-home #life-lessons #dreams

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? ↗

— Keith Henson

#could #gullibility #gullible #less #people

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present. ↗

— Jerome Hines

#happy #lessons #lives #past #person