#use

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#aligned #any #attention #basically #because

Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#big #couple #end #everything #flight

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#attribute #excuse #gave #i #never

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#colleagues #countries #even #friends #here

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

#because #costs #keep #much #paint

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#bring #collecting #healing #helpful #helping

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#film #first #first lady #forever #frame

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#any #because #common #error #kind

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. ↗

— Emil Ludwig

#any #because #changes #crucial #decision

We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#because #birth #carry #eight #gave