#ss

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area? ↗

— Asa Gray

#any #area #assume #continuous #evidence

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. ↗

— Asa Gray

#cause #confesses #difficulties #everything #find

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#impossible #nothing #try #who #will

98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against. ↗

— David Duchovny

#constantly #guard #harmless #only #people

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#knew #me #off #read #russians

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#about #achieve #agree #anything #chemical

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#because #better #deliberately #dumb #especially

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#because #drums #father #first #goal

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around. ↗

— Eva Green

#classical #classical music #cocoon #i #involved

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model. ↗

— Eva Green

#beautiful #characters #i #kill #makes