#bse

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#i #obsession #ourselves #owe #society

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#boat #color #colored #dinner #flag

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#alternatives #clears #marvelously #mind

If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know. ↗

— Jonathan D. Spence

#experience #hearsay #knowledge #observation #experience

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are. ↗

— William John Wills

#day #even #every #great #help

I don't obsess about my weight. I just know I've got to watch it when my pants feel tight. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#feel #got #i #just #know

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#devotion #efforts #increase #knowledge #large

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#body #climbing #directly #even #i

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#death #does #everyone #i #i think

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#fair #fair shake #getting #hired #look