#only

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#before #convention #dressed #gone #hadn

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attack #defense #did #economy #harbor

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time. ↗

— Eugene Kennedy

#disaster #future #game #growth #industry

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#certain #change #future #law #look

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#age #children #college #compared #families

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#beauty #capacity #children #friends #gave

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. ↗

— Elizabeth Kenny

#anywhere #enough #enter #exit #long

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#also #attachments #children #everything #father

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#day #deeply #ever #every #every day

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#happening #i #lately #like #melody