#discovere

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#after #discovered #energies #fire #god

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#baby #boom #discovered #fear #generation

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show. ↗

— John Corbett

#because #cover #discovered #get #i

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#beach #before #child #i #i am

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#artists #bunch #discovered #early #especially

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ↗

— David Sedaris

#apartment #art #basement #both #civilizations

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

#beloved #considered #desire #discovered #dispositions

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#always #certainly #discover #discovered #i

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#christopher #columbus #discovered #ever #mentioned

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#discovered #even #freedom #people #regions