#pot

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#find #i #just #laps #like

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes. ↗

— Richard Neal

#also #based #believe #burden #come

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that. ↗

— Don Nelson

#capable #doing #gonna #our #play

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#because #doing #internet #potential #really

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#both #evil #good #good and evil #human

Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing to negotiate? His great enemy Cromwell always maintained that the king had been swayed at the last moment by his queen, the beautiful Henrietta Maria. We can believe Cromwell's claim that the queen told her husband to be firm. But the wicked, spiteful, altogether irresistable quote often attributed to her by Puritan writers of the time is almost certainly false. "Oh my love, if you cannot remain firm in the bedchamber, at least try to remain firm with your subjects! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#impotence #beauty

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#consequently #demonstrate #disease #even #had

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was. ↗

— David Thewlis

#either #expert #feeling #his #his way

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #cooking #estimate #everybody #just

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit. ↗

— Ted Olson

#bit #center #course #crashed #devastated