#things

Man is the measure of all things. ↗

— Protagoras

#man #measure #things

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#more #really #says #separation #tender

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians. ↗

— James Purefoy

#awful #believe #christians #fundamentalist #god

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#extreme #i #mind #state #things

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#basic #elaborate #immediately #made #makes

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#achievements #cannot #direction #done #great

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called! ↗

— Francisco de Quevedo

#even #only #seem #short #things

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. ↗

— Sophocles

#becomes #educates #evil #mother #things

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#both #control #detectors #forks #good