#orc

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #attempt #cape #considerable #considerably

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different. ↗

— Hans Blix

#ceasefire #did #different #disarmament #forced

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing. ↗

— Patty Duke

#damned #going #i #imagine #kind

I'm not better when I force shots. I'm going to take them as they come. They are really sagging in there, trying to take me out of the game. It's my job to find guys. I want to be aggressive and take my shots, but I can't force them. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#better #come #find #force #game

I played cello in my high school orchestra. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#high #high school #i #orchestra #played

My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. ↗

— Eliza Dushku

#divorced #feminist #i #i was born #like

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#books #breed #contempt #enforce #i

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president? ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#billionaire #chance #divorced #does #jew

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#biggest #biology #budgets #century #discoveries

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. ↗

— Max Eastman

#beauty #force #i #importance #interest