#lain

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it? ↗

— Red Grange

#credit #ever #explain #how #i

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#change #charge #complaints #faces #remove

They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#censorship #chamberlain #had #i #idiotic

She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive. ↗

— Soman Chainani

#villains #death

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#been #could #explain #hard #high

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later. ↗

— Ed Harris

#about #constituents #every #explain #going

No one ever complains about a speech being too short! ↗

— Ira Hayes

#being #complains #ever #short #speech

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#ball #complains #dropped #likely #man

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#find #finger #love #love is #only

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. ↗

— James Hutton

#admitted #employed #except #explained #globe