#pointed

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #command #everything #hour #only

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results. ↗

— Walter Lang

#beginning #benefits #billion #earth #emphasizing

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#appointed #beating #been #come #heads

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture. ↗

— Herbert Lom

#i #part #picture #play #such

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#classics #darwin #darwinian #darwinian theory #errors

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place. ↗

— Paul Merton

#disappointed #first #i #invested #much

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament. ↗

— Mario Monti

#been #commission #confidence #each #elected

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#been #disappointed #i #itself #just

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#change #force #fresh #fresh look #i