#v

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#bronze #business #chosen #guardians #had

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one. ↗

— Luc Besson

#concern #could #fact #film #i

Umpires are necessary evils. ↗

— Doug Harvey

#necessary #umpires

My major task was to keep us solvent. ↗

— Cheryl Crawford

#major #solvent #task #us

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#also #hitler #i #intervention #korea

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. ↗

— Henry Beston

#away #banishment #depth #emotion #experience

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#everything #imitation #surpasses #truth

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#faith #heaven #here #hereafter #much

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine. ↗

— John Betjeman

#full #port #red #silver #wine

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#been #british #does #england #ever