#thin

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#comet #find #i #know #little

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#getting #nothing #something #sure #sure way

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#american public #been #challenger #convince #inclined

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. ↗

— Moliere

#how #know #oh #thing #two

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself. ↗

— Brian Molko

#before #done #even #find #help

I don't say anything unintentionally. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#i #say

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#exciting #frankly #i #liberating #pretend

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#cannot #care #cure #follies #i

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god