#lon

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. ↗

— Meghna Pant

#despair #inspirational #loneliness #old-age #age

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#given #hopeless #long #mathematics #over

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#been #declining #england #expressed #higher

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. ↗

— Andre Gide

#comes #else #long #welcome #you

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#experience #experimental #goal #long #nothing

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid. ↗

— Colin Baker

#anything #being #doing #i #long

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#appear #blow #colonial #colonialism #death

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#careers #control #covers #else #everyone

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. ↗

— Christian Bale

#alone #back #big #eleven #enjoy

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#universe #beauty