#si

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#body #continue #eternity #force #motion

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#easily #god #point #say #theologians

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#deep #doing #fall #fallen #gravity

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home. ↗

— Levon Helm

#every #every time #home #i #me

Any time the president talks, you listen. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#listen #president #talks #time #you

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say. ↗

— Peter Welch

#best #best way #brother #father #found

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. ↗

— Peter Welch

#already #ask #authorize #authorizing #bills

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#anything #applied #become #concepts #critics

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#artist #depression #good #known #mood