#prop

I love you, Margaret Macy. And there is something I need to ask you. Something I’ve asked twice before and am nearly afraid to ask again. The Scriptures say let our yes be yes and our no be no, but I pray, in your case, your no may have changed . . . ?” Margaret leaned forward and kissed him firmly, warmly, on the lips. Then she smiled at him, her eyes brimming with tears. “Yes, it most definitely has. ↗

— Julie Klassen

#margaret-macy #marriage-proposal #nathaniel-upchurch #change

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#america #been #belief #board #creativity

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#asked #even #forces #french #i

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#animal #assume #conceived #ecological #environment

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#identify #properties #study #then #today

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ↗

— William Penn

#justice #lives #obedience #our #our lives

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#differently #doing #i #know #proponent

This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage. ↗

— Andrew Gould

#because #drainage #factor #improvement #just

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different . ↗

— Gordon Gould

#communicated #different #entirely #had #history