#ros

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#before #bound #community #each #individual

I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#course #crosby #everybody #great #ground

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. ↗

— George Herbert

#days #full #lie #roses #spring

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. ↗

— John Hersey

#bomb #deterrence #fear #happened #hiroshima

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#eventually #gold #grabbed #guess #hands

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper. ↗

— Hesiod

#flourishes #give #judgements #just #land

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#cannot #civilized #draw #enemy #even

Eve cupped her ear at Claire. "I'm sorry, was that an apology? Because it didn't sound like one." "Don't push it." "I'm not, but you're acting like a drama princess." "Drama queen." "Hello, no. You need a lot more practice at door slamming, flouncing, and pouting before you can even pretend to deserve my throne, bitch. But you're coming along." Eve paused and fixed her with a long, serious look. "That wasn't a compliment, by the way. In case you were wondering. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #drama

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#always #book #bought #called #come