#cop

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#development #earth #had #increased #knowledge

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#comedy #connected #equals #find #francis

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#difference #life #makes #supposed #way

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world. ↗

— Izabella Scorupco

#famous #flight #had #helicopter #i

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#been #best #condition #cope #ever

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#business #cope #designing #development #go

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#aspect #away #country #decides #every

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes. ↗

— Margaret Smith

#get #i #last #longer #make

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done. ↗

— Mel Smith

#film #helicopter #london #often #showed