#lower

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beautiful #called #celebrate #flame #flower

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class consciousness #consciousness #expected #high #high levels

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#calm #calm down #died #down #energy

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#been #die #dressing #dressing room #enough

The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#controls #difficult #element #fewer #higher

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. ↗

— Andrew Mellon

#based #common #common sense #idea #lowering

My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#around #brown #eyes #find #flower

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#back #called #country #creditors #dates

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#able #dare #given #lower #matters

London, thou art the flower of cities all! ↗

— William Dunbar

#cities #flower #london #thou #thou art