#tory

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.' ↗

— Andrea Jung

#being #better #better job #board #feel

The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#made #martyrs #people #really #who

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything. ↗

— George Cukor

#carries #line #mean #really #scenes

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory. ↗

— Marie Curie

#be kind #dark #day #dress #enough

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ↗

— Marie Curie

#child #confronting #fairy #fairy tales #him

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory. ↗

— John Curtin

#ball #carry #enemy #first #football

It is not observed in history that families improve with time. ↗

— George William Curtis

#history #improve #observed #time

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. ↗

— Hans Kung

#cold #cold war #collapse #colonialism #communism

Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#country #creation #debt #deficit #did

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#connections #earth #first #fossil #history