#the

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

#i #if i could #names #particles #remember

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#attack #ever #furious #importunate #kill

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#convention #dividing #divine #each #human

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#concern #difficult #foreign #how #human

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#against #beef #consider #economic #even

I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#becomes #course #daughter #day #days

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#argue #creation #current #does #exhaustion

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. ↗

— James Chanos

#banking system #built #china #chinese #clear

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#funny #get #hardest #improvised #laugh

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#big #big fan #big problem #certain #civilization