#rin

People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer. ↗

— Eric Davis

#being #cancer #during #everyone #had

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bridges #britain #civil #deadly #engineering

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #british #budget #delivered #engineering

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better. ↗

— Evan Davis

#better #better place #boring #economics #fairly

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun. ↗

— Gail Devers

#fun #go #i #kids #lemonade

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#back #called #country #creditors #dates

A rose lay open in full bloom and, looking from my garden room, I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain. It seemed so fragile, resting there, and such a silence filled the air, the beauty of the moment caused me pain. "What more?" I thought. "There must be more." As if in answer then, I saw one weighty drop that caused my rose to fall. It trembled, then cascaded down to earth just staining gentle brown and, since then, I've felt different. That's all. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#poetry #pondering #simplicity #beauty

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ↗

— George Gissing

#event #familiar #persistent #prophecy #way

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#anything #back #big #change #cut