#oak

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #essential #man #mere #ordinary

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#bacteria #bars #cleaner #enjoy #environment

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#around #beans #garden #green #how

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#cloak #her #honorable #humility #often

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#different #granted #know #less #like

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#cloak #drop #even #explanation #facts

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #cloak #cover #hearts #impotence

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences. ↗

— John Legend

#grown #i #influences #listened #me

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#clubhouse #feel #guys #how #like

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#cloak #cold #keeps #love #out