#bse

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. ↗

— George Bentham

#botany #career #decided #determination #devote

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. ↗

— George Berkeley

#fails #itself #liberty #mind #nothing

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#attention #claims #does #expose #forget

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#else #general #idea #nothing #obsessed

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#america #challenges #faced #future #grown

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

Every religion is tailored down to the level of intelligence of the people embracing it and Islam takes the cake for being the most tailored religion. ↗

— Boris Zubry

#intelligence

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#been #celebrities #exploiting #just #living

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#certainly #competitive #drive #expecting #face