#tru

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#came #career #comes #had #i

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. ↗

— Steven Chu

#criterion #design #devices #fourth #grade

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#another #falls #life #looking #part

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#evil #false #gossip #lot #needn

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#elegant #excellency #generally #heart #taste

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. ↗

— Albert Claude

#common #courage #equilibrium #ethics #faith

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. ↗

— Albert Claude

#basic #billion #cell #distant #endless

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves. ↗

— Albert Claude

#given #image #instruments #make #moment

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

#also #behavior #bringing #cells #come

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#carrying #continuation #instrument #intercourse #means