#ria

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #governed #invariable #laws #like

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#act #arbitrary #atheists #could #creation

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. ↗

— David Sedaris

#do you know #how #know #laughing #listening

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#better #great #great time #know #lucky

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#board #chess #effect #except #flowing

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people. ↗

— John Selden

#concern #does #his #least #life

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#communities #give #hindu #human #human race

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friction #gem #man #nor #perfected

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#animators #bible #called #cinema #digital