#use

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. ↗

— Archilochus

#boast #cast #courage #field #find

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#comments #happens #hard #i #influence

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ↗

— Virgil

#effects #happy #their #trace #who

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#amuse #cherish #friends #our #ours

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#below #brute #brute force #force #hitting

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. ↗

— Mark Rutherford

#faculty #i #instrument #myself #possess

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#did #either #insidious #last #movie

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#almost #broad #broad range #daily #days

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house