#suffice

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#head #hundred #instant #only #reproduce

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

#self #self-sufficency #family

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#back #everything #gone #happier #houses

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future. ↗

— Mary Cassatt

#future #i #i think #love #me

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#deeds #only #out #passed #speak

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#capable #difference #doing #most #problem

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#long #make #may #sacrifice #stone

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#does #happiness #happy #necessary #perfectly

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#beauty #bible #book #else #english

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#banquet #birth #bread #control #diminish