#try

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#conceptual #course #especially #familiarize #good

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#because #else #fantasy #frustrating #frustrating thing

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mood-swings #psychiatry #funny

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#figure #guilty #i #i think #isolate

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#because #buildings #care #country #easily

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #background #behave #common #conduct

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#i #life #own #painting #through

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#i #morally #only #pure #remain

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#election #going #i #much #opponent

Our original idea was to help three or four hundred candidates in the first election run for the Ohio State legislature and the California legislature around the country. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#california #candidates #country #election #first