#disc

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

#discharged #few #free #free man #given

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#made #mistake #never #who

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. ↗

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

#discovery #down #duty #found #i

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#gold #i #like #silver #things

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#additional #also #better #big #consists

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#patience #waiting #age

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#before #career #company #cook #discouraged

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained. ↗

— Martin Frost

#country #depth #discourse #falling #level

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#april #being #big #day #discourage

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#before #copper #corner #discovery #even