#ture

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#about #choice #choose #credit #credit rating

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#became #ennobled #god #him #human

Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beauty

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#become #girl #new #over #picture

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#because #changed #cry #dead #funny

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#leads #nothing #premature #scientist #truth

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#certain #future #men #might #moments

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#any #appear #current #day #error

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#body #christendom #church #created #creature

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature. ↗

— Phillip M. Hoose

#high-school #literature #teaching #life