#oft

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#giving #like #looking #need #often

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#least #most #often #own #person

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#emperors #fancy #finds #fleet #hear

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#excess #faults #husbands #often #their

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. ↗

— Robert Collier

#any #convincingly #enough #finally #often

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. ↗

— James Newman

#least #often #scientists #spoken #wisdom

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ↗

— Adela Florence Nicolson

#desire #devotion #often #sated #virtue

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#child actors #even #hit #kids #make