#now

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#did #eyes #front #having #know

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#case #corporations #environmental #every #hazards

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#american #been #enjoy #freedom #friendship

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. ↗

— George Combe

#cases #character #conducting #divine #gentlemen

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#back #become #came #deprived #does

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #facts #failed #field #focused

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#certain point #finished #hard #i #jam

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. ↗

— Confucius

#i #i do #i remember #i see #know

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. ↗

— Confucius

#concerned #i #knowing #me #men

If we don't know life, how can we know death? ↗