#venti

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #conventional #insane #madmen #place

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that. ↗

— David Lloyd

#am #artists #because #board #conventions

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.' ↗

— Bill Maher

#big #bush #case #destroy #i

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

#charity #poverty #preventing

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine. ↗

— Walter Martin

#areas #basic #bit #book #collected

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth. ↗

— Walter Martin

#am #friend #i #i am #lover

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#conventional #doing #filming #forget #muppet

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction